Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon which he may hang gags ancient and new, plug sentimental ballads, caper through dance steps and behave in the approved Jolson manner. Big Boy is a cinemized version of the musicomedy of the same name in which he appeared for the Shuberts five years ago, a hackneyed, outlandish tale of a proud Southern family staking all on the Kentucky Derby, blackmailers, a forged check, an errant son, a happy musicomedy ending. Big Boy is the horse on which Jolson as Gus, the maligned faithful Negro jockey ultimately rides to victory...
...many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed...
...first, "Laucha's Marriage" by Payro, is an amusing tale of the marital troubles of a gaucho, one of the cowboy- hobo-adventurers that are the famed type of the Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely...
...remaining four are of lesser timber. "Holiday in Buenos Aires" describes that city in the sixties. "The Devil in Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites...
...almost as newsworthy as the deal itself. In the past decade he has made himself conspicuous on the publishing scene. He is a man with the dangerous combination of literary ability, business acumen, energy. From him the story of his life is a well and probably oft told tale. Eastern-bred, he went to the University of California for his health. He might not say that if he were not so impressively healthy today. After a brief early connection with G. P. Putnam's Sons, he went to Bend. Ore., in 1910, became publisher and editor of the Bend...