Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former star of Rio Rita is so clever with her nimble dance steps that by the time she comes out for her third encore, the house is hers, the song about her boy friend's "shushpenders," and her dance "Subway Shuffle," completely captivating the audience. As for Miss Foster, we are forced to admit that her playlet is rather crude, but her acting, plus her dark hair and bright eyes--well it was a good...
...Brahms' Hungarian Dance and Baynes' Destiny Waltz. The Banjo Club, with W. S. Warner '32 leading, will play Officer of the Day and a Football Medley. The vocal club, directed by A. H. Parker '32, will sing Winter Song by Bullard, and German's Rolling Down to Rio...
Yellowmen emigrated from Japan to the U. S. too fast, are now excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done...
...Mighty Jesus." In a biplane named Jesus del Gran Poder (Mighty Jesus) Spanish Flyers Francisco Jiminez and Ignacio Iglesias last week flew from Seville on a non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro. They landed at Bahia, 4,100 miles from Seville, refueled and proceeded to Rio, whence they expect to go to Buenos Aires. Their flight is one of the longest on record...
Thomas Baltzell (Pathe). Marooned on a wrecked plane for twelve hours when his flight from Manhattan to Rio de Janeiro was interrupted, he got pictures of the wreck...