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Latins, busily fashioning ways of attracting the tourist dollar, had two chief preoccupations: 1) lack of "first-class accommodations" (hotel rooms in Mexico City and Rio were as scarce as in New York); 2) irksome passport and visa requirements. Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Uruguay had made entry easy. Most other Latin American countries...
...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...
...this: a 13-year-old son to go with her, a country house to close and a town apartment to rent, an incomplete visa, no travelers' checks, nothing packed for a trip of any kind. And once-she-gets off the boat, her route will lie 900 miles across two war-ravaged nations...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
King without a Visa. In Brazil, another royal D.P. had been sitting on his packed bags for months. While they waited for visas to Portugal or France, Carol of Rumania and his statuesque friend, Magda Lupescu, dallied extravagantly at the Quintandinha, a lavish State casino outside Rio de Janeiro. With Carol and Madame dallied the royal Chancellor Ernest Udarianu and his wife, a Cuban valet de chambre and his wife, and the dogs-two black poodles, two Pekingese, a Doberman and a dachshund...