Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vera-Ellen, daughter of American-born Anne Revere and Costa Rican Coffee Planter J. Carrol Naish, is slated to marry 100% Costa Rican Cesar Romero. But Romero wants to marry American Comedienne Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen falls for Romero's American friend, Dick Haymes. All of this becomes involved enough to last for nearly two fiesta-flurried hours because the young people are slow about telling their parents-and each other-the bad news...
...coached Vera-Ellen into a splendid frenzy of ruffles. A ringing, all-Latin score by Cuba's Ernesto Lecuona includes several probable hits (Another Night Like This, Mi Vida, Giu-Pi-Pia, etc.) and a wild, magniloquent chorus as the camera honors some beautiful Costa Rican landscapes. Lecuona's music overwhelms some of the movie; it enriches much of the rest with the pleasantly itchy stitching of guitars...
Victor Manuel Aguilar Monge is a smiling, flashing-eyed Costa Rican youngster who knows where Heaven is. It is, he is sure, the U.S.- the place that sends shining Buicks and glistening DC-35 to his native San Jose. When he was 15, Victor Manuel packed up, wrapped a piece of soap and a towel in his other blue shirt, and started for Heaven. Last week he told his strange story...
...Paris, Señora Lucienne Benitez Rexach, wife of a Puerto Rican millionaire, drowned her sorrows in champagne. From her hotel suite outside Paris, thieves had stolen $435,000 of her jewels and pocket money. But the victim, who before her recent marriage was a café singer known to Montmartre as Môme Moineau (Kid Sparrow), considers the burglars outrageously inefficient: in the same suite they overlooked another cache of jewels (value...
...Stricken Land is a history of his Puerto Rican years, of the friends he made and the pounding he took from his enemies ("maliciousness unique even in my experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal...