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...Salvador Dali (Secret Life of Salvador Dali) had also finished his first novel. Characteristically, he said he had again chosen Dial for his publishers, because the name is an anagram...
...There may be no meat on the platter, No coffee, nor butter for bread; It all seems a trivial matter So long as I have on my head A fluff and a puff and a whimsy Suggestive of Salvador Dali, Irrelevant, flaunting and flimsy, A symbol of feminine folly. . . ." Two publishers wanted to get in touch with Lamartine to persuade him to write a book. Newsreel photographers hammered at Editor Norman Cousins' door, demanding to know M. Lamartine's where abouts. Manhattan newsmen tried vainly to find him. A female reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal tried...
When Lara visited the pre-Olympic meets in San Salvador in 1935, the head lines declared: "Agustin Lara arrived, accompanied by Mexico's Minister of the Interior." Last week Agustin Lara was hard at work on a job which seemed a natural for him - a theme song for Lupe Velez' Mexican film appearance as Emile Zola's celebrated prostitute, Nana...
Impulsora's backers (so far its capital is a modest $500,000) are 50% Mexicans, 50% U.S. citizens, but its president is 100%-Mexican Salvador Ugarte, who also heads Mexico City's potent Banco de Comercio. Its purpose is to find ways of investing the long-term capital of both countries in productive Mexican enterprise; its pet project is to help U.S. corporations establish branch plants that will be 50% Mexican-owned. Said Charlie Glore last week, understating the case for his corporation: "Business in Mexico is going to be small for some time ... it has to grow...
Surrealists, Class-Strugglers. Kootz whales away at surrealism in general as "an aspect of frustration" and evidence of "the decay of France." He admires the earlier work of Giorgio di Chirico. But of Salvador Dali he says: ". . . Each new showing evidences an hysterical attempt to provide the spectator with a different shock than that of the preceding exhibit." Of a Max Ernst show in 1941 he remarks: "Here, just the right amount of peep-show pornography ... to provide final fashionable acceptance to an audience thrilled by its chichi eroticism...