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With fresh cheers the Assembly tagged Article 46 with a language amendment: "Castilian is the standard Spanish dialect and shall be taught in the schools...
...wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will be promoted. Unfortunately...
...pictures in the Mexican mountains. To his castle on the crags he carries the stately leading lady (Helen Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little fiancee (Dorothea Chard), who is thus far the season's most piquant and delectable brunette. The blonde so beguiles Cortez that his Castilian nobility prompts him to propose. Then she admits that she has only been scheming to make him set the others free. He is too proud to punish her, so the pair are forced to separate until the third act when he arrives in Hollywood and finds her, scorned...
...Real name: Antonia Merce. Born in Buenos Aires, she is one of the few Argentinians who have pure Spanish blood. Her father, onetime premier danseur at the Madrid Opera, was a Castilian; her mother an Amlulasian...
When the dictator did finish, King Alfonso uttered a few lisping Castilian syllables and Seville's Ibero-American Exposition formally began...