Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girl of the Rio (RKO-Radio) is a passable little border romance made from a play called The Dove, in which the late Holbrook Blinn distinguished himself eight years ago. It is about a Mexican millionaire (Leo Carrillo) who, to facilitate his abduction of a cabaret girl (Dolores Del Rio) has her sweetheart (Norman Foster) jailed and removed from the country. All this is done with a superfluity of Mexican accent by Carrillo and Del Rio, and reiterations of clean young Americanisms by Foster, who encourages Del Rio by saying "Be game, kid." In the play these exaggerations made...
...LEO M. MEEKER...
...latest of Mary's feasts is the Holy Rosary, instituted in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII. In the Middle Ages, when Mary-churches (Chartres, Rheims, Rouen, Paris, Amiens) were built throughout Europe, when monks and nuns were transcribing Mary-legends, when warriors carried banners of the Blessed Virgin, the Rosary-"Our Lady's Psalter"- made its appearance. Simple folk, illiterates or busy ones could substitute 150 Ave Marias or Pater Nosters for the customary recitation of 150 psalms...
...offspring of the gangsters rather than the gangsters themselves. The daughter of one tycoon gangster meets, at her Florida debut, the son of her father's mortal enemy, a young man who has learned to be an architect. They marry. Furious, the girl's father (Leo Carrillo) threatens to kill his son-in-law, is killed himself by his aged mother. Critics wondered whether Hamlet would not make a better gangster plot than Romeo Or Juliet. The Age For Love (United Artists-Howard Hughes). Howard Hughes let it be known that he was seeking a suitable story...
...last week, Serafina di Leo read and reread her congratulatory telegrams. The newspapers told her what she already knew, that her debut as Leonora (// Trovatore) the night before had been successful if not sensational, that she had deported herself with accustomed confidence, displayed a powerful voice, bril liant if sometimes hard. . . . Lazily she stretched out, turned to the comic strips...