Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dante is not the old-style of magician who merely palms cards. Although he proudly boasts there isn't a blush in his show, Dante himself has a captivating stage personality and with a slight change of subject matter could fit well into a "Panama Hattie." Of course there are bound to be slow moments (like the finale which features Uncle Sam and a blonde subbing for the Statue of Liberty), but you will never be able to forget, that you are watching the world's greatest magician...
Hedy Lamarrs and Ann Sheridans may come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...
...Stewart, U. S. A. Nicaragua's Army numbers 3,538, with 4,000 reserves. The U. S. has a military adviser there. Nicaragua also has a tiny Air Force and a handful of naval patrol boats (largest, 37 tons). Costa Rica has a standing Army of 339 men, Panama none...
...Colombian Navy was reorganized in 1934 by retired British officers, now is advised by a U. S. mission, as is the Army. The Navy consists of two new destroyers, three gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama Canal to be important, is Ecuador, with a small Army of 7,500, a potential war strength of 48,000. An Italian military mission, which had been instructing the Ecuadorian Army for 15 years, was sent home after Italy entered the war last summer...
...Orbit. As far south as Ecuador, Hemisphere defense rests chiefly on U. S. shoulders, since both the Caribbean and the Panama Canal are vital to the defense of the continental U. S. Below Ecuador lie countries which have hitherto been out of the active U. S. defense orbit. Peru has an Army of 12,000 men, about 8,000 police and civil guards. The Army was trained by German General Wilhelm Faupel, is highly efficient. The Peruvian Air Force, Italian-trained, has some 80 ships, in poor condition. The Navy has a personnel of 2,500 men aboard two gunboats...