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...Latin leader who has reconnoitered the corridors of power is Dr. Francisco Bravo, patriarch and prime philanthropist of the Los Angeles barrio. A bald, bullnecked surgeon who worked his way up from the vineyards and orchards of Ventura county to become a real estate millionaire, Bravo, 57, established the first free clinic for Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles (opened in 1941, after Bravo won his medical degree from Stanford), founded a scholarship fund that has dispensed more than $100,000 to brainy pochos, and owns an Aztec-modern bank, with assets of $4,000,000, in East Los Angeles...
...start of the concert, interrupted her repeatedly with applause in the middle of song cycles-until she gently asked them to wait till the cycles were over. After that, Leontyne traveled to Atlanta to sing to a packed house in the Municipal Auditorium with the Atlanta Symphony. Shouts of "Bravo!" and "More, more!" followed each of her three encores. At the end, the orchestra laid down its instruments and joined in cheering fortissimo...
...Bravo!" cried a reckless woman after the first movement. To this, others in the audience responded in divided fashion: half boos, half hisses. A few avant-gardists countered with applause. More boos. "Bravo!" insisted the woman...
...BRAVO PICASSO! (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Documenting the artist's life and work with a massive display of canvases and sculptures, some seen via satellite from Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais exhibits...
School Dropout. It is that conviction, as well as his presence and artful stagecraft, that has made Scofield's performances near legendary. Helen Hayes, who saw him in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons, led the applause by rising and bellowing "Bravo! Bravo!" Playing Hamlet in Moscow in 1955, Scofield drew 16 curtain calls, the last three with the whole audience chanting his name in unison. When he played the whisky priest in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, the London Sunday Express called his performance "one of the finest pieces of character...