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Mexico's movie industry, buoyed up by its success in Latin America, was all set to invade the big U.S. market. John Steinbeck's La Perla (The Pearl), in English and Spanish versions, was shot and cut. RKO would soon distribute it throughout the hemisphere...
Spectacularly filmed in the brilliant light of Mexico's West Coast, La Perla is the simple story of a fisherman who finds a tremendous pearl, is beset by sharpers and thieves who would do him out of it, and, discovering that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting...
...observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given 100 Havanas by the Minister of Agriculture, he responded with a testimonial: "They have a good effect on my temper...
...first picture last week of Durban Harbor's Perla Siedle (see cut), onetime Wagnerian soprano whose tireless waterfront singing to Allied convoys has made her one of South Africa's great wartime personalities (TIME, Nov. 15). Perla, known affectionately to thousands of soldiers and sailors as Durban's Lady in White, sings God Bless America for Yanks, There'll Always Be an England for Tommies, Waltzing Matilda for Aussies...
Soldiers' talk has spread Perla's fame across the world. Captains usually salute her as their ships pass her dock. Her megaphone came from a torpedoed liner as a gift from grateful Tommies. Perla Siedle is the wife of Air Sergeant Jack Gibson, last stationed at Foggia, Italy, and she has two sons and one daughter in the South African Army. She has sung goodby to all of them, watching their ships move out of sight over the bar to the tune of her favorite closing number, Auld Lang Syne...