Word: pascale
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...idea is credited to Publisher Pascal Covici of Covici, Friede. Visiting Hollywood last summer he watched the filming of The Mighty Barnum with his good friend, Author Gene Fowler. Publisher Covici secured rights to print the script of The Mighty Barnum in book form. The producers. Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc., asked nothing but the publicity from simultaneous release of book and film. Author Fowler and Co-Author Bess Meredyth were to split 15% of the gross sales...
...week it became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance...
...Pancho Villa. The flogging and tortures by which the Diaz regime kept the peons in subjection arouse the anger of Villa and inspired by Madero he opens revolt against the government. After much bloody fighting Madero is installed as President, but his program of social reform divides his ranks. Pascal, a treacherous general leads the opposition, and the counter revolution soon ends in the murder of Madero and the installation of a conservative government. Villa learns of the treachery and returns to Mexico at the head of his rejuvenated army of peons and bandits. Pascal is ousted, and the liberal...
...captain under Madero, Villa captures towns in the north of Mexico whenever he feels like it. He takes Santa Rosalia against the orders of a superior officer. General Pascal (Joseph Schildkraut), to oblige a U. S. newspaperman (Stuart Erwin) who has written the story in advance. To oblige a wench named Rosita (Katherine de Mille, sultry daughter of Producer Cecil Blount de Mille) Villa has the newspaperman conduct a wedding ceremony. When Madero goes to Mexico City, there is no further work for Villa. He gets into a scrape for killing a bank cashier who is slow about cashing...
...epic portion of Viva Villa arrives when Sykes, the U. S. newspaperman, arrives to tell Villa that Pascal, whom Villa hates, has killed little Madero, whom Villa loves. Villa borrows $7 from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing...