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When he finished, he leaned close to the microphone and shouted: "Viva Méjico!" The crowd cried: "Viva, viva, viva Méjico!" He shouted: "Viva los Méjicanos!" The crowd cheered. Grinning, he shouted: "Viva las Naciones Unidas!" Cried the crowd: "Viva Wallace...
...scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with walking stick. This was what the crowd was there for; they greeted him enthusiastically. "Hats were thrown in the air and shouts of 'Viva America' and 'Bravo Welles' resounded as the tall, dignified diplomat debarked," reported Joseph Driscoll to the Herald Tribune. The Argentine delegation was caught in the multitude and forced to listen to the celebration...
...Mexico, bulky Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and consul general, celebrated the New Year with friends at the resort town of Cuernavaca. As the group drank up to "Viva Roosevelt" and "Viva Camacho," ten heel-clicking Germans Heil-Hitlered, split open Neruda's head with a blackjack. Next day five Mexican politicos formally offered to duel with the Nazis...
There's no use beating the dead; it's best just to let "Viva O'Brien's" book lie anonymous with all of its abortive attempts at humor and hope someone will mercifully bury it. A much cheerier subject is the technical genius which has been employed in the production. Topped by the novel triumph of a swimming pool built into the stage, a colorful and impressive array of no less than a dozen distinct scenes is presented--effective enough in themselves to keep a normal audience awake. The presence of the afore-mentioned body of water is thoroughly exploited...
...many ways "Viva O'Brien" is the biggest, bestest, most extravagant and ambitious musical show ever to be piled up on the boards and shoveled across the footlights of Boston's peaceful old Shubert Theatre. Producers Tickey, Hale and Robinson have reached into the pantry of theatrical food and loaded a groaning table with every edible known to the theatroniverous world. Net result: the most appetetive play-going gourmand alive could hardly leave without a satieted groan and a distinct craving for Alka-Seltzer. Reason: the recipe used was an inexcusably hacked script...