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...held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Peten's Passenger | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...call themselves. "We dance because we like to. We thought of calling ourselves cavaliers. . . . In Paris now they're calling dancers like us 'dancing doctors.' And, of course, they have gigolos over there, but we are not gigolos." (No tipping is allowed.) Said Dancer Ernesto Piedra, whose father General Manuel Piedra is Cuba's minister to China: "I think we should call ourselves 'associates of the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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