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...boats that carried a radio transmitter. Halfway across, she sent a message: "All aboard Manuiwa are well but worried about where our competitors may be." Honolulu was also sufficiently worried to send navy planes out to search for five boats that had not yet finished: Scaramouche, Viva, Queequeg, Naitamba, Common Sense. But they all arrived safely...
...rain coat standing beside their gorgeous Duce might be, shouted nothing but "Viva Mussolini!" Only a few German flags and a sprinkling of Nazi swastikas had been put up among the riot of Italian flags and Fascist banners. Except for some Ger mans who gathered on the opposite side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw...
Revolutions in Mexico occur with such monotonous regularity that they have ceased to be subjects of major interest. Dimmed by the frequency of the uprisings there have been, nevertheless, heroic struggles and suffering in the glamorous country south of the Rio Grande. Though obviously idealized and sentimentalized, "Viva Villa" is a stirring portrayal of the events centering about the Madero government and that fascinating bandit, Pancho Villa. The flogging and tortures by which the Diaz regime kept the peons in subjection arouse the anger of Villa and inspired by Madero he opens revolt against the government. After much bloody fighting...
...Colonial--Walter Hampden in "Richelieu"; at the Hollis--Irene Purcell in "Biography"; at the Metropolitan--"Twenty Million Sweethearts"; at Loew's State--"Viva Villa...
Suddenly he found himself hemmed in and surrounded by the black silent ears of innumerable microphones. Irritably he swept the lot of them aside and bellowed viva voce to his people. Only the first few rows could hear him while those in back chatted loudly, sang Fascist hymns. Sharp ears in front heard their leader...