Word: ranchos
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...night last week the Mayor and his attractive wife went down to Hay Market Plaza, bought 15? portions of tamales, enchiladas, chili, tortillas and hot sauce. Guitar-playing troubadors in flaring red ties strummed and hummed La Cucaracha, La Golondrina, El Rancho Grande, and the resurrected Queens (aged 17 to 70) did a booming business at their red and green tables on the Plaza. There was one innovation. Mayor Maverick insisted that the Queens be clean...
...plays, which began June 28, called "The Story of the Southwest." Five of the plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco's Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Two are new: Miracle of the Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner's Gold, a '49er show by Agnes Peterson, a Los Angeles school board official. Founder Brown will play...
...Barnsdall last summer tapped a big pool in Nueces County, Tex. On the last day of 1936 Barnsdall and Standard Oil of Indiana discovered an 80,000,000 bbl. reserve in Louisiana's Lafourche Parish. This week in California Barnsdall prepared to bring in a well called Rancho San Francisco No. i which may open up the biggest oil pool discovered in the U. S. since East Texas six years ago. What was more, the well was plunk in the centre of a 6,000-acre lease owned by Barnsdall alone. The new well is seven miles from Newhall...
...last week, Crooner Crosby, who also maintains a prizefighter, a girls' baseball team and a stable of race horses, one of which, Fight On, last week won its maiden race at odds of 80-to-1, announced that he would run a $3,000 invitation golf tournament at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, on Feb. 6-7. Golfers wondered whether Mysterious Montague would be invited to compete and, if so whether he would oblige his friend and the public by accepting...
...Strub, whose chain of dentist parlors gave him the resources to buy into a San Francisco baseball club, later to join Cineman Hal Roach in putting $1,250,000 into a race track on the site of the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin's famed Santa Anita Rancho. Since Santa Anita Park opened on Christmas Day 1934, racing has become a major Hollywood hobby...