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...Inauguration Day a thick drizzle fell on Havana's gold-domed Presidential Palace, but in its Salon of Mirrors Cuba's pomp watched the island's de facto boss become its de jure leader. Outside, wet thousands gathered in Misiones Park, with bands blaring, cheered a balcony appearance by the newly sworn President. Same day, President Batista issued a manifesto to the press:"It is true that the revolutionary cycle has ended. I wish to be good and to be loved by my people. I have no triumph. It is an ideal that has triumphed-the ideal...
Spring Parade (Universal). As a social document, Spring Parade arrives one war too late. Its tender treatment of walrus-mustached old Emperor Franz Josef of Austria leaves the impression that the imperialistic monarchs dethroned after World War I were just costumed Good-fellows whose apparent preoccupation with the pomp of politics could be easily sidetracked in order to help untangle a romance. When Spring Parade's Franz Josef cozily wrinkles his nose at a pretty peasant girl (Deanna Durbin) sometime circa 1896, he means that he is going to make sure she gets the drummer (Robert Cummings...
...Riom's old Palais de Justice, which is no more than a county courthouse, France's great war-guilt trial opened with pomp last week. In the small courtroom of the Auvergne Court of Appeals on plush-covered seats sat the seven members of France's newly constituted Supreme Court: Chief Justice Pierre Caous wearing a white ermine mantle, the two military justices, General Andre Wateau and Admiral O. B. Herr, in their dress uniforms, four lay justices in red robes and black-&-gold-braided caps. Above the heads of the Court was a bust of Marianne...
...successes. Outstanding among them are stations XEW, powered by 100,000 watts, and XEB, which is planning to step up its plant from 20,000 watts to 250,000 watts. (Biggest U. S. stations: 50,000 watts.) But supergiants XEW and XEB are surrounded with none of the glossy pomp of big U. S. stations...
With proper pomp and ceremony, Bishop Manning last week installed another dean: dark, handsome Dr. James Pernette De Wolfe, 45, formerly rector of Christ Church, Houston, Tex. Prayed the Bishop before the installation: "Almighty God, the Giver of all good gifts. . . . Grant we beseech Thee to this Thy servant, whom we receive this day as Dean of this Cathedral, that he may . . . dwell with his brethren in this Thy house in perfect love and peace...