Word: capitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seaplane carried him to Crete. Nazi soldiers, dropping out of the sky, drove him on again. He and his party fled once more; guided over the mountains by Capitan ("The Goat") Volanis, a fierce little Cretan guerrila. At the seacoast, he embarked on a British destroyer. From Cairo via Capetown he reached London, set up his Government-in-Exile...
...engineers and firemen in passenger train service is based on 100 miles or five hours, whichever makes the fatter envelope. Thus the engineer on the Santa Fe's crack El Capitan makes $15.77 for the 2½-hour, 203-mile run between Dodge City, Kans. and La Junta, Colo...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...
Last week the Coward series began its second hitch at El Capitan, with Rosalind Russell and Herbert Marshall in Still Life, Claire Trevor in Family Album. Judith Anderson in Hands Across the Sea. Binnie Barnes in Red Peppers. Not so good were Constance Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in We Were Dancing. After watching his daughter go through her paces, Richard Bennett testily observed: "Connie was born an amateur, she always has been an amateur, and still is an amateur." Another amateur, Elsa Maxwell, giggled through Ways and Means, displaying her broad beam in a series of startling stoops...
...woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient adoration. To thank Mayor Taggart for the free bed & board, Stokowski led his youths in a sidewalk serenade in front of the mayor's house, playing the stuffing out of John Philip Sousa's Manhattan Beach, El Capitan and Semper fidelis, Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here...