Word: esperanza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost a year passes in bitter deadlock. Other unions send food and money to keep the strikers going. The men do the women's work while the women stand duty-or the work goes undone. In the story of Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) and his wife Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas), the moral of the strike is lived out in sweat and painful growing...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Cinemactress Gail (The Lawless) Russell, 29, recently named by Cinemactor John Wayne's wife Esperanza, now divorced, as John's impromptu hostess for most of one night, wheeled up behind two cops' prowl car and blasted away with her horn. Hauled in for a sobriety test, Gail, fetchingly decked out in dungarees, flunked, spent most of the night as an impromptu guest of the city jail...
After a clinch over a divorce settlement and alimony, Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw, John (The Quiet Man) Wayne, 46, and his estranged, Mexican-born wife, Esperanza, 31, suddenly broke clean and began swinging wildly in court. John, Esperanza charged, drank too much. "All the trouble I've had came out of a bottle," said she. Then she recalled how He-Man Wayne had dragged her about by the hair and another time by a foot in hotels. Nonsense, retorted John. It was Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes...
Taking care not to nick her big, flat hat, Esperanza Wayne, estranged wife of Cinemactor John Wayne, poked her head out the window of her pickup truck in a fetching demonstration of woe. The truck, used for hauling garbage and dirt about her Encino, Calif, home, "is my only transportation," she wailed. Her Cadillac had been attached for bills run up since she and Wayne parted last year. Esperanza was asking the superior court for $9,000 a month to live on, instead of the $1,100 temporary alimony granted her pending their divorce trial next October...
...Angeles court, Cinemactor John (The Quiet Man) Wayne cried the financial blues as his estranged wife, onetime Mexican Cinemactress Esperanza Baur, demanded $9,000 a month (he is offering $900) while her separate maintenance suit is being decided. Besides all the expenses of stardom, said Wayne, he had to cope with taxes and an extravagant wife. "I know it sounds ridiculous." sighed the cinema heman, whose 1952 income was estimated at $500,000 by his wife, but he and Mrs. Wayne "just couldn't make ends meet...