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Spain's most "picturesque" citizens- her most old fashioned ones-inhabit the sunny southlands upon which are sprinkled such romantic cities as Seville, Granada, Cordoba, Cadiz. In joint session at Seville last week the governors of Spain's sunniest provinces decided that something must be clone at once to end unemployment. They did that something. They decreed that hereafter "no tractor or other mechanical farm implement" shall be used in southern Spain. With farm machinery at a standstill there will be work for many, many farmhands-so reasoned the picturesque governors. Their decree, of course, is Russia...
These historic characters are now impersonated by a notable cast. As Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Fiske has a role worthy of her farcial talents, and James T. Powers can exercise all his vocal tricks in the delineation of comical Bob Acres. Among the others: Rollo Peters; Pedro de Cordoba; Margery, daughter of Cyril Maude; Georgette, daughter of George M. Cohan. It is a pleasant diversion, recalling a time when the stage was consecrated to mannerly gaiety, ending in a few blithe measures neatly danced by the entire cast beneath the arching trees of King's Mead Fields...
Latin Power. Cienfugeos, Guantanamo, Santa Marta, Manzanillo, Sancti-Spiritus, Curityba, Cordoba-strange and Spanish are these names of Latin-American cities. But familiar and North American is their electric light and power machinery, built by U. S. capital, U. S. engineering. They are among the 643 Mexican, Central American and South American communities (population more than 8.000.000) served by subsidiaries of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc., which is in turn a subsidiary of Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond & Share...
...gave up his original act, purchased a hussar jacket and a whip and toured South America, sticking his head into lions' mouths twice daily. But Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse, managers searched for a successor. Last week the rococo façade of Buenos Aires' Cirque Cordoba billed another "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." The new Blackamon, who had been one of the original Living Corpse's assistants, omitted his former master's self perforations last week, but successfully went into his trance, was buried in his glass-fronted coffin. Three hours later the sand...
Since the War, U. S. financial physicians have gone to the far corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...