Word: juana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth-rate Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls and lightning flashes, Howard sings, attacks the girl after she has ridiculed him. She tries to kill...
...where Howard climbs slowly back to fortune by way of unpaid radio appearances in Los Angeles, a chance to fill in during an operatic emergency, a role in a cheap movie that turns into a hit. When he is on top of the world again, with Juana in a Gramercy Park hideaway in Manhattan, his evil genius appears-a suave, wealthy, possessive conductor and music patron named Hawes. Although Howard struggles in increasing panic, Juana guesses what is wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly...
...never forgot Juana, the Indian girl his rival had stolen from him. When Montenegro finally went too far, was arrested and put behind the bars, Jimmy seized his chance and went off with Juana. After she had borne him several children he did what he could to legalize her position by marrying her. And he finally risked an appearance in town, got his claim to his own lands recorded. He became a respectable, retired, sheep-ranching outlaw. By the time the Childses met her, Juana's earlier charms had faded and thickened; she seemed to think that...
...Department is in no hurry to make trouble about the recent occupation by Mexicans of a few U. S.-owned ranches. There remain for Ambassador Castillo Najera the trifling matters of dividing the waters of the lower Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, of keeping sewage out of the Tia Juana River, of settling the Chamizal boundary dispute at El Paso, Tex., of negotiating a trade treaty...
Hollywood. Tia Juana, Agua Caliente, Malibu, Colon. What glorious pictures these words conjure up in the minds of the moviegoer and the newspaper reader. Can't you just picture the exciting days and nights spent in these colorful cities. And, by the way, if you're planning to go travelling, and wish to visit these lands of your dreams, don't fail, absolutely, to read Incredible Land by that picturesque writer, Basil Woon (Liveright, $2.50). As a guide book it is excellent, but it is no less a very readable volume for an evening at home on the magic carpet...