Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
...Poetess Maria Konopnicka wrote the words: Our native tongue, our native land, Shall we renounce them? Never! . . . Must we be Germans? Rather die; So help us God on high...
...Erich Maria Remarque confessed, after 17 years, that he had not planned All Quiet on the Western Front as an "antiwar book." Said he: "I was simply interested in portraying the reaction of youth facing death." To writer Remarque the really effective anti-war book would be a picture-book. Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short...
Down the Drain. The mood of Erich Maria Remarque's new novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for February) is quiet desperation. Most of its characters are émigrés of polyglot nationalities. Its setting is Paris, the sink in which most of them have been stranded before being washed down the drain. The time is the eve of World...
...neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture's hero (Pedro Armendariz) is a good-looking, brooding peon, who appears...