The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS TICKER


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 Lois Long, the former "Llpstick'' Df The Nieu Yaukur (but now a .appily married woman) wants ssident Roosevelt or anybody to uild mountain inns all over Ecua- Aior. Claims 1t will then be Switz- erland Thornton Wilder is being received like movie star in Is. America-his Bridge of San Luis Rey" was @ big seller there William 0. White Ruth Morris husbanO is doing a serial with a Brazilian background for Golfers. The villain is American .. Gil- bert Gabriel, former dramatic cri- tic, is going to Nicaragua to do a piece on the life of Wm. Walker .i. .. Wendy Iglehart's mother (her daddy is proxy of The Grace Line) was born in Chile. So were glamor gals Jinx Falkenburg and Helen Craig, star of Johnny Belinda" Everybody is happier since Holly wood made Carmen Miranda a Brazilian (and not an Argentinian) Now her movies may be shown there.
 MGM's casting of Simon Boli- var" (the South American George Washington has caused consider able excitement-as much, p'raps, as there was over GWTW. The fans, frinstance, have turned down Clark Gable He didn't look like their hero, 1t seems. Robert Taylor is announced for the role In- cidentally, Warmers spent plenty of money doing research on Bolivar only to lose their priority to Metro Paramount News is sending John Dored, formerly assigned to Eastern Europe-to Rio and Buenos Aires All South American stars will appear in the Dolores Del Rio picture which is to be made in Mexico City They make an attractive perfumed water in Rio with q real orchid inside the bottle. The Gilbert Millers of Theater- Town and the Wm. Paleys of Radio City are busy returning all the en- bertainmerlt they received in s. America -- to the many visitors from below the equator. There are 90 many, in fact, that Best's took an ad Gin Spanish) in the Times If you want to meet the lad who wrote "Perfidia" and Ere nesi" then try to get through all of John (NBC) Royals staff. MT. Royal has him in tow - introduce tng him to all the li1liinportant cele- orities So great is the popu- Iarity of Readers Digest (the Span lsh edition) that its circ has tripled n three issues Now that there's 10 Paris anymore, the demand in South America for Vogue and Harp sr's is bigger than the supply Hattie Carnegie may open branch n Buenos Aires.
 The big hit last season down there vas Rise Stevens, the Brooklyn girl who clicked big at the Met Opera Rosa Covarrubias, who is doing Ill those photographs for the Mexi- ,an Government, was Rose Rolanda, star Ge the first Music Box Revue' Happy news among her numer- ,us. fans South of the Border-is ;he Hollywood comeback staged by Mona Maris after seven years of pad luck Senor .Fqoro Ugarte, lirector-general of The Solon Opera, ,arne to New York to sign Toscanini md Tibbett for Buenos Aires '. The Chilean Ski team is reaping .he glory that hte Argentine Polo ;eatin enjoyed a few years ago rip-rnost of the boys look like Rob- .rt Taylor and are the most eligible foung men in Chile.
 E. D. R. endeared the people of Chile to North Americans when he ,rdered Senora Davila flown home n . bomber His invitation Q the son of the President of Par iguay (stricken with infantile par- ilysis) to Warm Springs--will al- ways be affectionately remembered
 Another fine Ambassador of Goodwin is Ambassador Winant's ion-in- Jaw, Carlos Valando, a young scientist from Peru A news eel company is sending camera T,ws to every country in South