Hollywood (1939)

Juarez Highlights [Continued from page 31] palace on the Adriatic Sea where she and her youthful husband had been so happy. A profusion of exotic flowers, an outburst of cheers — but nobody except soldiers were on the twisted white streets, and there were so many vultures! Maximilian began to wonder uneasily. They didn't tell him that numberless executions had taken care of those who conspicuously objected to his coming. Bette, in her high-necked, puffed-sleeved blue gown, the color of the ocean, climbed into the imperial coach, a marvel of black enamel and gold leaf. On the cushions was a paper. It was a message from Juarez: "You are the victim of a fraud, designed to make you believe that the people of Mexico desire an Emperor. I tell you to leave Mexico and never return . . ." Maximilian could not believe this paper told the truth. In the role of the ruler, Brian Aherne looked at it first with uneasiness, then with a half smile, while his retinue scoffed at the Indian upstart who ventured such a warning. The great Emperor had no way of knowing how important the poor peon was to be. What about the "Indian upstart," Juarez, as played by Paul Muni? History records that he was outwardly calm, even exasperatingly unhurried. He handled documents with clumsy, slow fingers. His brain seemed to plod. But that's what deceived the people of his own era, at first. Behind that dogged exterior was an unbreakable will and the mind of a keen and adroit soldier. His usual stolidity made his few flashes of fire the more effective. The "village" which housed the Juarez headquarters stood as a triumph of the movie technicians' skill. Built at the Warner ranch in San Fernando Valley, it was designed largely from plaster casts of the walls of local Spanish missions. The casts picked up the impressions of weather markings, water furrows, and sand erosions found on the ancient stone and adobe structures, and these markings were transferred to the buildings in the outdoor sets. Consequently, three strides across a patch of grass, you found yourself in the middle of old Mexico. There stood a cathedral at one end of a steep street, its chunky tower sharp against the sapphire sky; a cathedral complete with weatherbeaten gray portico and crumbling steps. Farther on was an inn with hospitable doorway and iron-grilled windows. At the brow of the hill stood some houses with purple vines over the lower porches and a lop-eared balcony or two upstairs. Casement windows swung in the wind. Curtains flapped. The chipped house cornices, the powdery pink stone of the fountain, the streaks and stains and cracks on the walls of shops . . Why, the place looked as if it had been there five centuries. ■ It's a pity they couldn't have had in the picture one Luis Flores Lopez, who lives in Mexico City and who has attained the mature age of 116 years. Lopez, who fought under Juarez's aide, Porfirio Diaz, throughout the time Maximilian was Emperor, acted as technical adviser on the film, and gave Director Dieterle many valuable suggestions when Dieterle went to Mexico for data. One of Lopez's deeds of derring-do has been duplicated in the picture. During an engagement with the French artillery, he rode up to the gun emplacement, unarmed, lassoed a field piece, and dragged it back to the Mexican lines. This act of courage was witnessed by Col. Gabriel Moreno, now aged 90; and by General Ignacio Velasquez, now 108 years old, who was the commanding officer during that engagement. Apparently one way to live long is to join a Mexican revolution. 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