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Died. Dr. Victor Eduardo Verdades de Faria. 54, Portugal's Consul General at Manhattan; with his 38-year-old wife; when a train crashed into their automobile; in West Barnstable, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...three-and-a-half anxious hours President Vargas and his defenders held out. Finally War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra, a bullet through his ear, arrived, leading a detachment .of the regular army and attacked the Integralistas from the rear. Rio Grande do Sul Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head of a company of police, civilians and soldiers. They bottled up the Green Shirts with a flanking movement. Thirty Integralistas were captured, eight lay dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Green Shirts Up, Down | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Down at the end of the alley is the Vieux Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Tbe Oxford Letter | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

...find buried treasure on a desert island and returns to outsmart his persecutors. Elissa Landi is Mercedes who, although forced into an unwelcome marriage when her lover goes to jail, remains sufficiently faithful, after her husband dies, to marry her inamorato when he returns. Good shot: the Abbe Faria (O. P. Heggie) suddenly poking his head through a tunnel and discovering Dantes' cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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