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...Pesos, for Passion. Revolutionary adventure attracted Lara briefly; at 16, he left home to campaign with Pancho Villa. Back in the capital after a year of it, and hungry, he got a job playing the piano in a brothel, was soon steeped in the smoky atmosphere of the dives of the Barrio de San Miguel-Mexico's Montmartre. The secrets the girls told him in idle hours he phrased in songs. One night, as he broke off playing his new song Rosa, a buxom beauty named Yoland pulled a knife from her garter, slashed his face from mouth...
...wrote music for revues at the Teatro Lirico, and in 1932 began croaking his own songs in an immensely popular radio program. Lara became a kind of musical version of Rudolph Valentino. Touring neighboring republics, he was mobbed by women in the streets. After quarreling with his actress-wife, Carmen Zozoya, Lara met Movie Star María Felix just before a party in honor of her first big picture. "Please come, Señor Lara," cooed María. "But I warn you that we have no piano. Just a guitar." Next day he sent her a snow-white...
...Tears, for Tributes. Their honeymoon in Acapulco inspired María Bonita ("Remember those nights in Acapulco, María of my soul?"). She called him "My Skinny" (Lara says he weighs 120 Ibs. "with an overcoat on"). He rained minks, Cadillacs and diamonds on María. But the rising young star was hard to hold, and they were divorced in 1947, leaving Lara heartbroken. He told friends: "I love María too much . . . Rather than kill her I prefer to divorce...
...hollow-cheeked Lara still lives his legend, tapping out tunes,for arrangers to orchestrate, keeping up his floor show at the Capri nightclub and his Lírico revues. His soft piano-playing in a darkened room with a single soft light playing on his pinched face is still the most irresistible thing in Mexican entertainment. The royalties roll in, and he spends them expertly...
...have ever heard such tributes to themselves as Lara did through his week-long anniversary. Five ex-Presidents of Mexico sent messages of congratulation. President Ruiz Cortines embraced the troubador, 53 this week, and said: "Work for Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...