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...ra bouffe laid in the West Indies of a century ago, The Pirate tells how the young wife of a fat dullard feasts on stories of an amorous pirate named Estramudo. A mountebank comes by, warms to the lady, tries to win her favor by claiming to be Estramudo. (Actually, her own husband is.) These and a lot of other old-fashioned absurdities of plot are blown up with old-fashioned extravagances of diction. Now & then a flash of wit serves for punctuation...
...intriguing. Most amazing entertainer of the '90s was Mama Lou, gnarled, coal-black songstress in a St. Louis brothel. (Paderewski was once taken to hear her sing, became captivated.) A wellspring of melody, Mama Lou emerges as the probable source of three hits of the '90s: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, May Irwin's Bully Song...
...Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, whose deportation was asked three months ago by the Chamber of Deputies, continued as active as ever. Two henchmen representing the Federation of German Cultural & Beneficent Societies turned Castillo's "speak-no-evil" policy to their own advantage, refused to testify before Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda's "Dies Committee" on the spending of more than $4,000,000 during the past year...
Peru's most important figure-more important than President Dr. Manuel Prado-is Raúl Haya de la Torre, fugitive head of the outlawed Aprista Party. President Prado, says Gunther, would probably like to lift the ban against the Apristas, but if he did, they would sweep him out of office at the next election. So he doesn...
...outright corruption. The same horse exists today in a different color, and as the Independent Union, attempts to incite anti-C.I.O. sentiment in Quincy with the worn device of red-baiting. Early this week, an Independent publication went out of its way to dub the student organizers "ra-ra pinks." A deliberate endeavor by anti-labor forces to counteract the activity of students can only mean that the Committee is making its influence felt in the campaign for unionism at Fore River...