Word: patios
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...Naify control the five theaters. But McNeil-Naify easily outmaneuvered them. When the Goldwyn agents tried to get an option on the State Auditorium, officials refused because it was a public building and could not be rented to private enterprise for profit. Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning to surround it with a 10 ft. canvas fence...
...nationalist Old Guard, who do not or will not see the satire in his act, loathe him as the leader of "the barbarian invasion from the North." Nevertheless, Tin Tan today is not only the wonder boy of the Folies Bergere, but a headliner at the swanky, touristy El Patio, a regular over Mexico's powerful radio station XEW, and has contracts in his pocket to tour Latin America and star in three cinemusicals...
...Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...
...Reuben Fleet's office, overlooking his private patio, a map hangs on the wall. It is labeled, with appropriately concise grandeur: The World. To Fleet's pilots, the world is all cross-country territory, and crossing it is all in the day's work...
...Mexico City's El Patio nightclub last fortnight, the Oles! rang loud; the band played the bullfighters' cheer song-Diana; even Chucho Solorzano, reigning matador of the season, rose to pay his respects to the honored guest. The hullabaloo was not for Henry Wallace, visiting U. S. ambassador of good will, but dark-eyed, pale-faced Hollywood Starlet Linda Darnell. Linda, cooing contentedly in a seat between Mexican Movie Favorite Fernando Soler and portly Singer Alfonso