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...buildings and records. Fray Junipero's cell, restored to look as it did when he prayed, read his missal and scourged himself with a chain therein, was dedicated as a shrine. A handful of Indians, descendants of those whom, Fray Junipero confirmed, were present. And there was a fiesta for the hundreds of Spanish-American Catholics of Monterey peninsula, with plenty of music and dancing...
...refused to aid the builders. Dr. Willis was presently overwhelmed by numbers in the row over the Bridge and is currently saying nothing on a question which only a major earthquake can definitely settle. Last week, when practically everybody else journeyed to San Francisco for a week's fiesta over the opening, Dr. Willis was absent, prospecting for gold in the Philippines...
...undergraduate actors ran afoul of the law with the play "Fiesta," by the New York playwright, Micheal Gold. The original manuscript of the work, a comedy of the Mexican Revolution is on view and next to it is a letter from the Boston board of censors indicating that it was "improper" and "unfit for presentation...
Raisin Day at Fresno, Calif, is a typical California fiesta. Started in 1908 by California raisin growers as a promotion scheme, Raisin Day used to be a parade with floats, a cinemactor king & queen. This was replaced after 1928 by a track & field carnival started by Fresno State College in 1927. Chief characteristic of Fresno's annual West Coast Relays turned out to be a tendency toward individual performances so extraordinary that the meet's slogan became: "Where World Records Fall." This helped to make the meet the Pacific Coast equivalent of the East's Penn Relay...
...labor for victory." To Spanish President Manuel Azaña came a cable of good wishes from Japan's Emperor Hirohito, indicating that Japan has no intention of recognizing the Insurgent regime of General Francisco Franco. Unperturbed, General Franco wiped the anniversary from the Rightist calendar, decreed a fiesta for May 2 to mark "the first triumphal year" of his revolt which began last July. The discrepancy of two months he overlooked in order to offset the "Red" May Day events which will be observed elsewhere in Europe...