Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico to begin shooting a film version of James M. Cain's Serenade (about the meteoric career in opera of a farm boy who hits the skids in Mexico and is befriended by a Mexican beauty), badboy Tenor Mario Lanza was on his good behavior as he met the press in San Antonio. He explained that he was enthusiastic about making his first picture in three years: "I don't want to be inactive again. Inactivity breeds inactivity...
Last week, halfway through his six-year term of office, President Ruiz Cortines reported to the Mexican Congress-and by radio to the nation-on his progress in solving the great problem of Mexico. His voice was flat, his prose dry. But there was a hint of justified pride in his tone as he ticked off some of the accomplishments of his administration...
...talk about what is closest to her heart-the glorious career of Marjorie Morningstar-she goes to the West gos brownstone flat of her dearest friend, a' fat, good-natured girl with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment decorated with Mexican copper plates, Chinese screens and African masks. Papa Zelenko strums the balalaika: Mama Zelenko pounds out Bach on the piano. After Margie scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp in the Adirondacks. Across...
Wouks' first son, Abraham, was drowned in a Mexican swimming pool in 1951, when he slipped out of the house early one morning to sail a toy boat his father had given...
Marriage Revealed. Diego Rivera, 69, famed Mexican mural painter; and Emma Hurtado, 39, dancer-model; he for the fifth time, she for the second; on July 29, as he made ready to leave for Russia for a cancer operation; in Mexico City...