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...Lobos's ability to absorb influences and still remain fresh and vital. The cello is his own instrument, and the magnificent sonorities he wrings from it in ensemble approach at times the effect of a full string orchestra, particularly in the rich and lyrical Introduction, which employs melodies from Brazilian jazz to excellent effect. The Prelude and Fugue show a scholarly understanding of Bach worthy of the most erudite academician, yet there is plenty of original vigor; one doesn't feel that this is just another exercise in composition being backed over. Villa-Lobos handles the counter-point perfectly smoothly...
...From Rio de Janeiro three Axis ships had sailed hurriedly just before the U.S. began seizing vessels. A few days later a Brazilian court granted Britain's Enemy Shipping Claims Commission an order holding two German and two Italian ships at Rio for nonpayment of fuel bills. Since the British commission had tried to get such an order since last June, it was plain what Brazil was up to. Police boarded the four ships to guard against sabotage...
That Night in Rio (20th Century-Fox) provides a parallelogram in inter-American relations. A U. S. nightclub entertainer (Don Ameche) is romancing a Brazilian cutie (Carmen Miranda) who performs in the same show. Patrons of the nightclub are Baron Duarte (also Don Ameche) a rich Brazilian broker and his pretty, plumpish wife (Alice Faye). When their quadrangular paths intersect, the foursome gets its identities tangled, temporarily crosses its affections. The complications, jealousies and comedy which accompany this Technicolored treatise on Pan-American flirtation are highly significant diplomatically. That Night in Rio is the first rose tossed by Hollywood...
...That Night in Rio, Producer Darryl Zanuck sent an outline of the story to the Brazilian embassy in Washington for approval and suggestions before shooting started, consulted with the Whitney Committee's committees in Hollywood kept an expert handy...
...Broadway two years ago in The Streets of Paris. Only the plushiest side of life in Rio is shown-the expansive interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss...