Word: vina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story humbly. A radio salesman, responding less to his own inclination than to her advances, makes friends with a pretty girl, seduces her with pleasure tinged by pessimism, marries her with love but some reluctance when her brother turns her out for coming home late. The picture, derived from Vina Delmar's best seller in 1928, might have been chilled by the sententious attitude with which cinema often apologizes for its attempts at realism. Instead, it is as intimate as the gossip on a fire-escape, as interesting as a secret. Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) gave the story...
...plays golf with Walter Hagen clubs, shows a marked dancing preference for U. S. young women, plays U. S. jazz on his saxophone, and as Empire Salesman "threw" for South American bigwig prospects at least one major salesman's drinking party of approved, standardized U. S. pattern, at Vina del Mar, Chile (TIME, March...
...present Edward of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) has very seldom touched baccarat cards or chips, though often he has had his equerry play for him. Play at Vina del Mar is not high. For only 10,000 pesos ($1,200). H. R. H. bought the "bank," i. e. the right to hold and deal cards to the players who would all win to him or lose to him as Fate decreed (there is no "skill," or almost none, in baccarat...
...little is, in fact, to have better luck than average; but for the Prince of Wales to have actually won only $50.40 was terrible publicity for Vina del Mar. Next night, when Prince George took the bank, Chilean publicity experts reported his winnings as 50,000 pesos...
...Dancing the tango at Vina del Mar's Casino, H. R. H. belied advance press notices from London that he can tango. According to Chilean experts, what H. R. H. did was something between a tango and a waltz. "This made his steps," wrote one courteous Chilean, "quite the most unusual and newest on the floor." ¶ Entertaining a delegation of more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina...