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Word: taki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...played for more than two weeks, and has given ample demonstration of its capabilities. Its principals are better this season than last. It retains most of its stars, some of these of wide reputation-Anna Fitziu, Alice True Gentle, Marie Rappold, Sophie Charlebois, Bianca Saroya, Manuel Salazar, Taki Miura. It has made some noteworthy additions-the tenors Tommasini and O'Moore, the soprano Consuelo Escobar. Its productions are generally " good "- voices, orchestra, chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $3 Per Seat | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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