Word: escudero
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Pinto. To the next important portfolio, Defense, he assigned equally pro-Allied General Oscar Escudero Otarola, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army. Thus in the new Chilean Government the military gained strongly at the expense of the politicians...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
...popular pieces Midnight in Paris and I Carry You in My Pocket but soon comes up with Vesti la Giubba, and then rises to E lucevan le stelle in Tosca at the Metropolitan. Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink inter polates Brahms's Lullaby, and Dancers Maria Gambarelli and Vincente Escudero do their specialties...
Another interesting musical event centers around the appearance in Boston of Lucienne Boyer, the widely known French diseuse, in the Continental Varieties with Vincente Escudero and a large supporting cast. The Continental Varieties have long been successful in Europe, and Mile. Boyer is widely known by her interpretation of d'amour songs. Annually, six hundred thousand of her phonograph records are sold, and George Gershwin, Arthur Hammerstein, and many others have testified to her great artistic ability. The engagement is to open at the Wilbur Theatre on January 10, and is to remain four days...
Continental Varieties (Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin, producers) smoothly exhibits a group of European music-hall celebrities, performing, one by one. their tony specialties. Dressed in blue velvet, perched dramatically on a piano, Lucienne Boyer sings her Parisian torch songs (TIME, Oct. 8). Vicente Escudero clicks his Spanish heels, cas tanets and fingernails, accompanied by a troupe of wriggling gypsies. A fat, sad-faced Russian named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water...