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Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...
...days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news Back to Manhattan, after working four months in Hollywood, went Author Ben Hecht to put his play To Quito and Back in rehearsal. Said Author Hecht: "When...
...According to the usually reliable New York Times, while Henry Ford was denouncing labor unions in Georgia, the Chauffeurs' Union of Quito, Ecuador, elected him their president...
Tropical Diseases: Quito, Dr. Sergio Lasso Meneses; Lima, Drs. Edmundo Escomel, Carlos Enrique Paz Soldan; Bogota, Dr. Daniel Brigard; Caracas, Dr. R. Gonzalez Rincones; Rio de. Janeiro, Dr. Carlos Chagas; Mexico City, Dr. Gaston Melo; San Jose (Costa Rica), Dr. Solon Nunez; Havana, Dr. W. Hoffmann...