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...practice, he used natives instead of trained actors. He worked only on sunny days, drank beer on days when it rained? With no projection room in which to view "rushes" he used an immense amount of film-160.000 ft. The picture, not yet publicly released, is called Viva Mexico. It relates three incidents, each with different characters. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson, after seeing parts of Viva Mexico: "The first is a tragedy of the Mexican peons under the Diaz regime; the second a romance of the master class during the same period and the third a story...
...candidates beneath the Georgian walls. The contestants, dressed in the height of fashion, blazing in House colors, hold banquets, giving away cigars, speeches, and spreading their ineffable personalities. Good spirits should not be forgotten, either. And then, after a week of Bacchanalian ballyhoo, the election is held viva voce...
...election, proclaimed their own "Queen of the People." About her gathered a motley court. They proceeded toward the centre of the city where Queen Baquerizo, surrounded by ladies in waiting, was riding in state in a gaudy float. Up to the float they pushed crying: "Down with the Aristocrats! Viva Mendoza!" Ladies of the court were pushed into the street, suffering bruises. Senorita Rosa had her right eye blackened before the float was delivered to the Queen of the People. Through the streets the rioters surged. Squads of police finally restored order just as a bus driver, threatened...
...handfuls of straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...
...woman extracted from her pocketbook a faded U. S. flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...