Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great crowds gathered in streets of San Juan, of Rio Piedras, of many a village and hamlet throughout Puerto Rico last week. They had but one purpose: to stop all motor traffic. They scattered tacks, nails, scraps of iron, pieces of glass over the pavements. Automobiles that did not disappear prudently into driveways were attacked by gangs who drove nails into their tires, smashed their windshields with bricks. Thus, from end to end of their island, Puerto Ricans struck against the high price of gasoline...
...some quips which may cause some cinemagoers to wonder what Will Hays is doing. Typical sequence: a drunk loudly advocating that "Our merchandise be placed in slot machines on every corner, in case of emergency" only to discover that he is in the wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive comedies based on the real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like...
...more sensible than most such chronicles. Flying Down to Rio starts with Belinda Rezende (Dolores Del Rio) sitting in a Miami cafe where a band leader (Gene Raymond) is making eyes at her. When he accepts her invitation to dance, his assistant (Fred Astaire) who pays less attention to music than to hoofing and joking with pretty Ginger Rogers remarks: "Hold your hats, boys.. Here...
...ranch houses, the 1,500 miles of fences and other equipment at $4,000,000 -a grand total of $18,590,000. So tremendous that it is practically an independent kingdom within the borders of Texas, the ranch was founded in 1851 by Captain Richard King, Seminole tighter and Rio Grande pilot. It has been ruled for the past half century by a dynasty of Klebergs: Robert I, who married the Captain's daughter, and Robert II. their reigning son. The Klebergs ruled but the Captain's widow, spunky little Henrietta King, kept the ownership...
Like a globe-trotting dowager, self-sufficient and completely self-assured, the Graf Zeppelin barged into and out of the U. S. last week on a schedule adjusted to suit herself. Having completed her 50th crossing of the Atlantic, she rolled up from Rio with 21 passengers including a 10-month-old baby, picked up Miami's Mayor Sewell, and made for Akron, Ohio. It was after dusk when Dr. Hugo Eckener pointed the ship's nose down through driving rain into the floodlights of the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail...