Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viva Villa (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Pancho Villa was a Mexican cattle-thief and revolutionist who, in 1916. eluded with humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation...
...final rubber-stamp of the week, the Convention nominated for President by acclamation a pure-blooded Tarascan Indian,* General Lazaro Cardenas, the fierce, secretive go-getter who hunted Bandit Pancho Villa. General Cardenas' taciturnity is a Mexican byword. Since last spring, when Dictator Calles indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal...
...Tracy episode kindled into flame bad feeling already caused by complaints that Viva Villa was rowdily derogatory to revolutionary Mexico. Nellie Campobello, adopted daughter of the late Pancho Villa, now director of the dance department of the public education ministry, called the film an insult to Mexico" because one scene in it depicted her father experimenting with a civilized bathroom as though he had never seen one before...
...Pancho Augustin Villa Jr., 21. son of the oldtime Mexican bandit, who had been hired by a Hollywood studio to play his father as a young man in a film based on Villa's life, was declared insane by a Los Angeles court, committed to an asylum because he refused to wear clothes, attacked his mother with a piece of scrap iron...
...celebrated. William R. Wilkerson's Hollywood Reporter, Talmud of the cinema industry, lavishly called him last week "the greatest piece of motion picture property living today. . . ." Born at Wahoo, Neb. of U. S.-Swiss parentage, he ran away from home at 15, enlisted in the Army, chased Pancho Villa in Mexico, went to Los Angeles penniless after the 1918 Armistice. He worked in a box factory, in a shipyard, in the Baker Iron Works, wrote advertising cards for drug store windows, tried being a prizefighter for two fights. He held 18 jobs, lost them all without losing his ambition...