Word: pan-american
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...with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold articles on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters to South American papers. He married Muna Lee, distinguished poetess, speaker at Pan-American conferences, contributor to The New Yorker, onetime book reviewer for the New York Times...
...same show. Patrons of the nightclub are Baron Duarte (also Don Ameche) a rich Brazilian broker and his pretty, plumpish wife (Alice Faye). When their quadrangular paths intersect, the foursome gets its identities tangled, temporarily crosses its affections. The complications, jealousies and comedy which accompany this Technicolored treatise on Pan-American flirtation are highly significant diplomatically. That Night in Rio is the first rose tossed by Hollywood in its current attempt to woo South America via the movies...
...rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers the Latin Don Ameche to the U. S. duplicate, and since the U S Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince Latins that the yanquis are trying to be good albeit slightly dreamy and gushing, neighbors. If they want other evidence, they can look forward to Robert Taylor in The Life of Simon Bolivar, Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand...
...many a Government department and private agency working for better Pan-American relations, but none that was notably energetic, imaginative, outspoken. As time went by and little was heard from Coordinator Rockefeller, it looked as if his attempt might have gone the way of all others. Critics complained that Mr. Rockefeller had apparently done nothing except suggest to movie producers that they refrain from showing gigolos as Argentines. But last week Coordinator Rockefeller issued a preliminary report that showed he had done a good deal more. Based on a three-man survey, in 18 countries, the report charged...
Ever since the U. S. Government, goaded by Nazi rivalry, began courting Latin America, cultural and educational institutions on both sides of the Rio Grande have run a low fever of Pan-American good will. One result: an unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships...