Word: rios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Price Glory (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio). Those who have seen the play remember how Captain Flag and Sergeant Quirt are continually clutching at one another's throat hot-tempered rivals for any wench that happens on their common path, remember also how these fighting men unhesitatingly leave off the bitter wrangling when the bugle sounds the call to their "religion of soldiering." The love of the marines is nothing to make a prop lady sigh...
...Rio de Janeiro, capital of the United States of Brazil, a republic larger than the 48 states...
Inaugural Unrest. No sooner was Senhor Luiz installed at the Presidential Palace, presumably to remain there until 1930, than 400 troops in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul mutinied, and necessitated the despatch of 1.000 federal troops to quell them. Skirmishing continued throughout the week, and recalled the virtual war waged by retiring President Bernardes during 1924-25 against various perpetually rebellious factions in the provincial states. The Government announced last week with regret that in view of this fresh mutiny the "state of siege" declared at Rio de Janeiro in 1924 to permit censorship of the press...
...have apparently succeeded in forging the issue. Time and again President Calles has declared that the new land laws are in no way retroactive an will affect only future property holdings. Nevertheless the State Department has continued to write notes bordering on the insulting to our neighbor beyond the Rio Grande. Apparently then, the State Department is acting in the interests of further economic penetration and expansion by American interests, and this is what is meant by threatened destruction of American business...
Died. Lola Fisher (Mrs. Kenneth Thompson), 34, actress; in Fleetwood, Yonkers, of tuberculosis. She played in Rio Grande, Under Cover, Be Calm Camilla, Good Gracious, Annabelle; acted with William Courtney, Ethel Barrymore...