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When you return, you stroll across the road to Don Efren's house. He's sitting outside looking down at his foot, which is swollen and oozing from a week-old axe cut. He's been to the doctor in Calpulalpan, so it should be all right. His daughter, thin, bright-eyed Ofelia, comes out and tells you how she's going to go in the sixth grade in San Martin and then become a nurse. Her younger sisters, giggling wildly, hurl sombreros in the air and watch the wind take them. Her mother, Dona Rosa, invites...
...quite special world awaited the Riggs-King spectacle, a well settled suburban world. It is true that the sidelines were anything but suburban, packed instead with movie made stars and other with-it celebrities. But tennis has for years been the pet game of these beautiful few. The Efren Zimbalist Jr. Open is by now an old institution. No, the match was made for newer fans. For the country clubbers from Palm Beach to Piping Rock, for all mixed doubles faddists, for the people who have made tennis Big Business, the match was going to be a happening...
Thus Manila had reason for satisfaction last month when government forces killed 21 Huks in two bloody shoot-outs in Luzon. The paramilitary Philippine Constabulary had eliminated four guerrilla commanders, including the third-ranking man in the Huk hierarchy, Efren Lopez, who went by the nom de guerre of Commander Freddie. The action apparently resulted in part from factional division and rivalry among the insurgents. Government forces had trapped Freddie and his men on a tip-off -and that tip-off had evidently come from Commander Sumulong, who ranks directly below Huk Supremo Pedro Taruc. Sumulong had apparently felt challenged...
...crime of Fray Efren de la Madre de Dios, in the eyes of Avila, had been to state flatly that St. Teresa was not born in Avila (where tourists are shown the very room she first opened her eyes in) but at her family's winter place in Gottarendura, some eight miles away. And, as if this were not enough, Fray Efren claimed that Teresa's grandfather had lived under a cloud for having converted himself and his family to Judaism (probably for business reasons), though later, under the urgings of the Inquisition, he repented and rejoined...
Honeydew", by Joseph Herbert with music by Efren Zimbalist, which is now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is on the whole a pleasing musical comedy, although the first act is disappointing on account of the conventional character of its matrimonial entanglements. The second act contains however some agreeable surprises in the original treatment given to well-worn situations, and while true to type, certain complications are never unsnarled, the main issue is satisfactorily disposed of. Even in the first act, the "Chinese Fantasy" lends a certain exotic illusion to a banale situation. The singing and dancing of Ethelind Terry...