Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai Gesture is notable for its inexcusably bad acting and directing. Magniloquent Director Josef von Sternberg (once plain Joe Stern of Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...
Kept uninformed by Vichy censorship, the businessmen of French West Africa, Morocco and Algiers had little basis for comparison of their boom with recent booms in Oslo, Sofia, Bucharest, where tourism turned to swarms of Nazi soldiers...
Then the ship's company was taken to Casablanca in Morocco. There they debarked and were put into a concentration camp. Some of them died. A baby was born. Some were released. Finally, at summer's end, a group of 40 was released in a body, put aboard the Spanish ship the Cabo de Buena Esperanza (Cape of Good Hope), bound once more for Brazil. Their visas had been guaranteed by the Brazilian consul at Casablanca...
Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week...
Wanted by both the Gestapo and Mussolini's agents, a Prato escaped a refugee roundup in France by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport. While being examined for the Gestapo list, the examining officer observed: "Why, you look just like this man a Prato." Said coolheaded a Prato: "Why, it is a remarkable resemblance...