Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil's tremendous gambling industry, which breathed easier when pious, roulette-hating Eduardo Gomes lost his campaign for the presidency, had new cause for jitters. Last week Rio's Cardinal-designate Dom Jaime de Barros Camara was out to drive the croupier from the casino...
...dubbed in. It thus reverses the traditional practice of dubbing Spanish into Hollywood films so that Spanish-speaking movie audiences will get the impression that Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, et al. are speaking idiomatic Spanish. U.S. cinemaddicts will not be surprised to hear Maria's heroine (Delores Del Rio) speaking English, but they will note that the sound track doesn't quite match the Del Rio lips-or even the Del Rio voice...
...outcast Indian girl who is tormented and finally stoned by her self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture...
...dispatching to Rio a longtime Bolshevist of Surits' standing, the Soviets had paid the respect due to big, rich Brazil's growing eminence in world affairs. Surits would probably keep a weather eye on the seven other Russian diplomatic missions in Latin America-much as late Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky supposedly did in Mexico City...
Party for Prestes. Marking their burgeoning strength, the Communists last week staged a gay party. The occasion: the birthday of their senator-elect leader, smoldering, classic-browed Luis Carlos Prestes. At Communist headquarters by Rio's tree-shaded Flamengo Beach, party members popped firecrackers, chewed gristly, barbecued beef, drank guaraná, a soft drink. While Prestes blew out the 48 candles on a 7-ft., 226-lb. cake decorated with a red hammer & sickle, guests sambaed to a socially significant new tune, "Milk, Meat & Bread...