Word: quinteros
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...time, not so many hundreds of years ago, when California was overrun by Spaniards who lived, laughed, fought and loved in true Latin tradition. Caballeros and peons were happy under the sway of a good alcande, but completely miserable when he was replaced by the gold-greedy Alcande Quintero. And so young Diego came over the seas from Spain's West Point to rescue his people and restore to them his father's benign rule...
Diego found the best procedure was to lead a double life. To the public he became a fine-mannered fop, but in the still of the night he was Zorro, the marauding Robin Hood of the New World, threatening the wicked regime of Quintero and undoing the dirt it did. After numerous narrow escapes, he succeeded in his personal crusade, winning at the same time the Alcante's innocent niece. Tyrone Power is the gay young caballero and he gives the part all he has. But much more convincing is the corpulent Padre, Eugene Pallette, who feels righteous in clouting...
Died. Serafín Alvárez Quintero, 67, prolific Spanish playwright (Malvaloca, A Sunny Morning, A Hundred Years Old); of hemiplegia, a form of paralysis; in Madrid. Still alive is Brother Joaquín, 65, with whom he collaborated on more than 200 plays...
...play will be the feature of a meeting of the Spanish Club in Winthrop House Senior Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight. "Secretico de Confession," originally written in the Aragonese dialect by Signores Serefin y Joaquin-Quintero has been translated into the more familiar Castilian by Erwin Jaffe 3G. Coached by Jaffe, Gilbert Fraunhar '38, Therese Nadean, Earle S. Randall 3G, and Marjorie Wood, Radcliffe '38 will present the entrenice...
...their farewell performances, the Studio Players will present "Fortunate," a brilliant play by the Spanish masters of comedy, Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, tomorrow and Saturday nights, April 1 and 2, at 8.30 o'clock in Brattle Hall...