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...Shoot some Communists" is the tried and trusty maxim of Latin American politicos seeking diplomatic recognition by the Great Powers. In Havana last week the student-supported Cabinet of President Ramon Grau and the spunky Cuban Army now commanded by ex-Sergeant ("Emperor") Fulgencio Batista seized a fine chance to impress the world with their hostility to Reds...
...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...
TIGER JUAN-Ramon Perez de Ayala-Macmillan ($2). Wild-eyed Spanish novel by an author highly-touted in Spain...
...them elbowed for the leadership. One was Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin y Madrid, 49, able Havana surgeon, professor of anatomy at Havana University. A bachelor, he has the calm of a surgeon, the detached idealism of a professor. The other was Sergio Carbo, tall, black-haired, volatile editor of the radical weekly La Semana, which Machado once suppressed "for pornography." The crowd liked Carbo's strong, graceful speaking manner, liked to recall that he had helped lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio...
Against the sands of the Yuma desert in Arizona, Metro-Goldyn Mayer has strung out an exciting story of the white woman who is charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...