Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Safe in Paris, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, published his much advertised attack upon the King of Spain (TIME, Oct. 20). In a pamphlet entitled Alfonso Unmasked, Ibanez accused the King of remaining "a precocious child, without becoming a man," of being lightheaded, a German spy during the War, the sole cause of the Moroccan disaster...
Thus when Vicente Blasco Ibanez, a writer of ability, but of little depth, attacks the King of Spain, his plot is doubtless fodder for the cinema kings. Beyond that it need not be taken seriously. The attack was delivered and much was made of it in the daily press. Said Blasco...
...republican. The King business has been a bad business for Spain." The "King business" is a favorite expression of The World. Because the Prince of Wales is "entirely composed of prestige"-a statement far from the truth-the "King business" ought to be wound up. Because Ibanez is seen as "the greatest of all Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic disguises Liberalism with bigoted reaction. Republicanism may fit new countries ; but, for those with hundreds of years of tradition behind them, it is utter folly. Compare...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...
...convince a world iddled with the evils and inconsistencies of popular government of the already flagrant crimes of Rivera's dictatorship, will not be difficult, but, for the while at least, moral indignation is exhausted, and it is doubtful whether any crusading zeal will spring up in response to Ibanez's call...