Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your excellent cinema columnist trod on a sensitive spot and misled the public in the article on Fred Astaire (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. Astaire was established on the screen in Flying Down to Rio, for which picture I brought him to Hollywood and teamed him with Ginger Rogers...
...slight delay in getting the picture started, he was farmed out to MGM, purely for economical reasons and not because of any lack of esteem on our part for him. The few feet accorded his two feet in Dancing Lady went practically unnoticed, whereas in Flying Down to Rio he was acclaimed by public and reviewers alike all over the world...
...Live For Love" concerns the press agent who must make the theatre star and radio singer amorous when they hate each other and hostile when they love. Dolores del Rio is lovely in white ermine. While the voice of Everett Marshall fails to carry conviction, it is pleasant for an hour's entertainment. Allan Jenkins escapes from city pavements to reach the heights of Nijinsky when he gives his interpretation of a ballet performance...
...desperate effort to educate his sons, Merchant Otero sent them to Notre Dame, again to St. Louis University, where they enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike...
...Memorial hall which the Museum will open next autumn, was installed a towering mural painted by William Andrew Mackay. At the top a comely female figure in Grecian dress, representing the river, is pouring a torrent from a vase. In the background is a map with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square-headed figure in khaki breeches and boots may gaze with hat in hand upon his river...