International photographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

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Mexico's motjon picture FestjvaI Among those making the trip to Mexico City to partake in President Avila Camacho's Motion Picture Festival were (left to right) Brenda Marshall, William Holden, Sabu, Wallace Beery, Kay Francis, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Norma Shearer, Mischa Auer, Esther Fernandez, Patricia Morison, Frank Morgan and Frank Capra. Bachrach With fifty stars, executives and correspondents back at work, leaving behind them in Mexico City the ringing cheers of hundreds of thousands, Hollywood is being acclaimed today as America's first diplomat. The occasion was the attendance of the motion picture industry's delegation to President Manuel Avila Camacho's Motion Picture Festival, April 12 to 14. In Washington and Mexico City, high government officials agree that no mission in a compass By William Wallace of years has so thoroughly and graciously done its work. No selling mission, no outright stunt in support of any single motion picture, the visit of the Hollvwood stars to Mexico was purely and simply a testament that the people of the North American continent are bound together in the common cause of Democracy and a free life. The ties of equality and friendship became apparent before the planes had been three hours Cavjar or Corn Ed BeeF? George Jean Nathan has somewhere remarked that to the Englishman sex is beefsteak, while the Frenchman regards it merely as hors (Toeuvres. The French as a race have an amazing gift for intellectual detachment. Affairs and issues that an Anglo-Saxon gets emotionally embroiled in, and which he messes up with sentiment and prejudice, a Frenchman regards in a clear, cold light. Under this light he perceives that many of these things are very pleasant and very amusing, but nothing to get apopletic about. So he proceeds to smile at them, to enjoy them — and forthwith to forget them. A particular evidence of the detachment of the Frenchman is his well-known skill in setting forth the lighter and more amusing aspects of sex, and in enjoying them without blushes and without sniggers. Anglo-Saxons practicing this phase of nude art, being unaccustomed to it, and perhaps temperamentally still unreconciled to it, must assiduously practice lightness of touch. A bit of grossness, a bit too heavy an accent, a bit too much aggressiveness— and your caviar becomes corned beef. In thought, in action, in structure — the picture must conform throughout to the lightness of its intent. — William Mortensen, "Monsters and Madonnas'* out of California. The first landing on Mexican soil in Hermosillo was accomplished in a boil of humanity which surrounded the planes and cheered the stars. After a brief customs stop, the party proceeded to the famous seaside city of Mazatlan, noted for its sports and fishing. There, in a democratic outburst of informality, stars and working press alike shared simple accommodations, mingled openly with the populace in the streets and quickly established the mood that prevailed throughout the entire trip. The city of Mazatlan arranged a dinner for that evening, and the first official visits were accomplished there. Colonel Rodolfo T. Loaiza, Governor of the State of Sinaloa, and his Honor, Federico Cuevas, Presidente Municipal of Mazatlan, joined in welcoming the Americans to Mexico. After the official dinner, the Hollywood party split up, some visiting the Cathedral, crowded with Good Friday worshippers, some the world renowed beach, others meeting the leading Mexicans who live there. Soon after dawn next morning, the entire party took off for Mexico City, which the three Pan-American planes reached just before noon. After circling the city three times in formation, the planes landed at the airport to be met by hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who not only jammed every corner of the large field, but lined the city streets for seven International Photographer for June, 1941