Word: viviane
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...provides a hackneyed but handsome vehicle for a number of Hollywood virtuosos, notably Brazilian Dancer Carmen Miranda and the plug-ugly king of illiterary men, William Bendix. Resplendently decked out in Technicolor, the film is a gaudy, expensive improvisation on the oft-told story about a cafe singer (newcomer Vivian Elaine) who yearns to be a musicomedy queen, and a struggling composer (Don Ameche) who wants to have his concerto played at Carnegie Hall...
...Centennial State last week. They were solemnly proud of not having done something-they had stubbornly refused to vote what they had been called into special session to pass. Their do-nothing was the loudest kind of slap in the face of Colorado's Governor John Charles Vivian...
...Governor Vivian, excited by the Denver Post's black gothic headlines and red-tempered editorials, had called the session to pass a constitutional amendment to keep Japanese nationals from buying even one foot of Colorado's fair soil. About 1300 Japanese, pushed off the Pacific Coast by the Army, have been resettled in Colorado since Pearl Harbor...
...first, the House seemed willing to go along with Vivian. Then three representatives banded together to fight the amendment: one who is blind, a second whose brother is a Jap prisoner, a third who is a Negro. Tall, gangly Dean Paul Roberts of Denver's St. John's Cathedral soberly warned a packed house and gallery: "Fascism starts in an innocent way, with public opinion mobilized against a small group unable to fight back...
After that, Vivian's constitutional amendment was dead. The Senate killed it, then went home muttering about a week's wasted time. The House, 60-to-1, dismissed even a Vivian face-saving gesture to "appoint a committee to investigate the problem." Rebuffed, Governor Vivian in turn rebuffed reporters: "I don't care to say anything about it. What...