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...bouncing, fiery Heitor Villa-Lobos. When he was six years old his lawyer father, an amateur musician, taught him how to play a lick or two on the cello. He taught himself how to play the piano. By the time he was 19 he was roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often to the jungly songs of Brazil's Indians, the hot, oozing rhythms of Brazil's primitive Negroes. With these in his inner ear, he started to write music-unorthodox...
...Carioca* Villa-Lobos went to Paris in 1923, he did not go to get polished. "I didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless they brought their...
...carpet Getulio Vargas there upon haled his debonair Director of Propaganda Lourival Fontes, to find out why Brazilian Fascism was getting a bad press. Senhor Fontes' answer was brief and to the point: Brazil's newspapers were sick of censorship...
Authoritarian though Brazil is, its Estado Novo has no political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...
...charge of censorship Vargas put young Civis Muller, an officer of Brazil's Federal District Police. Censor Muller, ambitious, fond of authority, but with no newspaper experience whatever, issued a series of exacting regulations, some of them virtually impossible to obey, put censors in every Brazilian editor's office, large or small, in the offices of such foreign news agencies as United Press, Associated Press, Britain's Reuter's, France's Havas, Germany's Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau...