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...Born Antonia Merce, in Buenos Aires, of a Castilian father and an Andalusian mother. Her father was premier danseur in the Madrid Opera ballet in which she herself made her debut...
...island in the southern Indian Ocean south of Madagascar. †Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim was educated at Mellila and speaks acceptable Spanish. His brother Muhammed, educated in Spain, speaks flawless Castilian...
...agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns did settle in New Amsterdam in 1614, Mr. Van Dorn himself is capable of earning only $3000 a year, whereas the Blumbergs (pants business) and the Palmieris (fruit business) are in the $20,000 a year class. The seventeenth century Van Dorns...
HEAT-Isa Glenn-Knopf ($2.50). This hot jungle of a book contains an innocent West Pointer, a brainy girl from the States and a Dolores whose scented mantilla appears at first to be the real Castilian thing. The scene is perfumed Manila, "charged with alien, bewildering passions" (cf. jacket). The West Pointer is not inflamed by the virtue of his countrywoman's doctrine of drainage and spelling for the natives, but Dolores, an honest-to-goodness Spanish senorita, and in trouble-well, that is different. When the clay feet of Dolores peep from beneath her wicked skirts, the West...
When she could make herself heard, Raquel Meller began her U. S. career with a simple Spanish folksong, a song which might be the distant Castilian cousin of "Old Black Joe." It was so simple, so undemonstrative, that the connoisseurs after listening intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which...