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Many a Chilean grimaced in irritation last week at the latest drastic measure of Dictator President Carlos Ibañez. He, peremptory, issued an order that all gambling establishments but one be closed immediately...
...skylights. For relaxation he played the victrola and practiced on the cornet. In 1923 he gave a series of lectures at the League on magazine illustrating. He has drawn pictures for The Desert Healer by E. M. Hull, Find the Woman by Arthur Somers Roche, The Torrent by Blasco Iba...
...From a platform before it the Bishop celebrated mass. Then a match crackled, the pyre towered into flame. For an hour, untiring, zealous, the Bishop cast upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...
Married. Vicente Blasco Ibañez, 58, famed Spanish novelist, to Dona Elena Ortuzar Bulnes, widow of a Chilean diplomat; at Mentone, France. His first wife died last January...
Others have criticized. Indeed, Admiral de Magaz, Vice President of the Directory, said earlier in the year: "... None of us ignores the effect produced abroad by the prolonged continuation in office of the Military Directory." Professor de Unamuno and Señor Vicente Blasco Ibañez lost more sympathy for Spain than they gained by carrying on despicable propaganda. The fact remains that the Directory is firmly in its saddle and there is no likelihood of its being unhorsed. It has kept a firm hand on the reins; and its riding, if not superb, has at least been good...