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Tiburcio, the imaginary Mr. Everyman of Panama, who ordinarily dismisses a government economy drive as little more than whimsical propaganda, thoughtfully withdrew his tongue from his cheek last week. The first budget by Ernesto de la Guardia, the austerity-preaching new President...
Continental Defense. In Mexico City, chronic church-robbers Ernesto Ruiz, Enrique Diaz and Salvador Monroy assured police that they always knelt before looting a chapel, added that they feared no heavenly wrath because: "God is too occupied with European affairs to pay any attention...
...months later Carolina's father, Ernesto Picchioni, was known to all Italy as the "Monster of Nerola." With her mother, two sisters and a brother, Carolina lived with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
Malagueña (Caterina Valente; Decca). A combination of German Weltschmerz and Latin languor that is not so odd as it seems. Songstress Valente was - born in Paris of an Italian father and a French mother, and lives in Germany. She sings Ernesto Lecuona's famous Cuban ditty in German with an elegant background of ghostly strings, muted brasses and castanets, and the result is stunning. Bestseller bound...
Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...