Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down at one of the three desks...
...solid stepfather, contact with his strange mother, and the intense need to enjoy himself and to succeed which came from 30 years of misery and failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect for plain success, which leaves him no patience towards artists of integrity who fail at the box office. The combination might explain his matchless skill in producing...
...clowning. On this basis, Jimmy Durante builds a ludicrous structure of many ramifications. His less discerning admirers have been apt to call him a big-nosed, uproarious zany and let it go at that. But the fact that Jimmy's nose is big is no more important per se than the fact that W. C. Fields's nose is red. Jimmy, like Fields, is no gagster, however appealing, depending on the card indexes of teams of gagmen (he has used many of the same jokes for years). Jimmy, like Fields, is a high comedian, who can convulse both...
Most Shocking. Possibly the year's most shocking war book was not written by a soldier, described no battles. It was Thérèse Bonney's photographic record of what World War II has done to Europe's children. Privately printed (after rejection by ten publishers), Europe's Children is now completely sold out. Duell, Sloan & Pearce is publishing a new edition...
...reason is not Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...