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Second, attraction is Comic Mario Moreno, known throughout Latin America as Cantinflas, Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...minute, quietly hired aeronautical experts and engineers. Last week he came up with a spotty-looking aviation staff: Colonel John Hamilton Jouett, ex-World War I pilot, ex-president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who will supervise Higgins' new aviation division; Inventor-Manufacturer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca; Aerodynamics Professor-Engineer Dr. Max M. Munk; Curtiss-Wright Designer-Engineer Alfred Victor Verville; three other expert airmen...
Promoter of these deals is swart, shrewd, analytical Lawrence Mario Giannini, 48-son of famed father Amadeo Peter-who knows plenty about banking, has a vivid industrial imagination to boot. Mario, all but reared in a teller's cage, probably figures that the real future of bankers lies not in shuffling currency and checks but in production-which is not banking...
...Chamber of Deputies, Socialist Mario Bravo orated for some 90 minutes: "Argentina was always a leading nation. Today we are almost out-counted in the list of American nations . . . [but] there will be a revolution. The causes of revolution are already latent." Radical Deputy Raul Damonte Taborda, bitter enemy of the Axis fifth column in Argentina, joined with Bravo, and together their two parties forced through the Chamber resolutions demanding: 1) a diplomatic break with the Axis (67-to-64); 2) fulfillment of hemispheric accords reached at the Rio de Janeiro conference in January...
...Acting President Castillo a couple of tugs which failed to untwitch the covering, the officious chef de protocole unveiled the plaque with a jerk. Next he ordered photographs to be posed, driving Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello in & out of pictures until the Cardinal was hopelessly confused. When Vice Admiral Mario Fincati, Minister of Marine, was missing at the moment he should have signed, the chef de protocole peremptorily shouted: "Fincati! Fincati! Where's Fincati?-and sent dignified, elderly Dr. Melo trotting off to find...