Word: emilio
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...discovering that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting off his cameras about: he has been over much of that country himself...
Even by the rough & tumble standards of Mexican revolution, El Indio's life story is amazing. When his father left to join one of the revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General...
...sharp-eyed Emilio saved a girl from drowning off a Chicago beach. She turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...
...name of the street he has built on changed to "La Calzada de la Duke Olivia" (The Street of the Sweet Olivia). That he had never seen Olivia only heightened the poignancy of the romantic situation. But in August his old U.S. script-writing buddy, Marcus Goodrich, married Emilio's dream girl, whose name is Olivia de Havilland...
General Douglas MacArthur politely shook hands with old General Emilio Aguinaldo (76), who, for independence, fought MacArthur's father in 1899. Now Filipinos had their independence. Said a Filipino jeep driver: "It feels good." The Manila Bulletin greeted sovereignty with a reservation that older, larger nations might find appropriate: "It is for the Philippines, no less than every other country which wishes to preserve peace, to sacrifice a portion of sovereignty, that is to say, the privilege of doing as it pleases, in the common good...