Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waldo Peirce, grey-bearded, booming impressionist painter (TIME, May 29), journeyed from Bangor, Me. to Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...
China is typified in a resolute old farmer named Ling Tan (Walter Huston). When war comes to Ling Tan's village, he does not choose to run. He meets the Japanese peaceably and with dignity-only to learn that dignity is no longer a human value. His son-in-law's fat old mother, his second son's wife, are raped and murdered. His three sons, and the wife (Katharine Hepburn) of one of them, join the refugees who, carrying parts of a dismantled factory on their backs, stream toward mountains a thousand miles distant...
...kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
Comic to Cult. It took Mexico City to turn Tin Tan from a comic into a, cult. A year ago Tin Tan was a little-known radio actor in Juarez, where he had picked up his lingo in border cantinas. Actually he speaks excellent Spanish but very poor English. He got his first spot in a live show last summer, at the time of the Los Angeles zoot-suit riots, adopted the zoot-suit as a satiric badge. His act was a flop till he went to Mexico City, where he became the rage overnight...
...detractors. Mexico City's stiff-necked, nationalist Old Guard, who do not or will not see the satire in his act, loathe him as the leader of "the barbarian invasion from the North." Nevertheless, Tin Tan today is not only the wonder boy of the Folies Bergere, but a headliner at the swanky, touristy El Patio, a regular over Mexico's powerful radio station XEW, and has contracts in his pocket to tour Latin America and star in three cinemusicals...