Refugio is a station on line 1 of the Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico. The station is located in the city centre, just north of the Parish Church of Our Lady of Refuge (La Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Refugio) on Del Federalismo between Joaquín Angulo and Herrera y Cairo streets.
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The Montes Movie Theater fire occurred on 6 July 1941, at the Montes Movie Theater in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, resulting in 86 deaths and eleven injured. The fire destroyed the relatively small building.
The theater was located on Mezquitán Street between Angulo and Herrera y Cairo, the present location of the Jardín del Refugio, in downtown Guadalajara. At the time of the fire, 2,500 people were crowded into the theater.
The fire originated after lightning struck the stage or screen. Much of the audience was frightened when seeing the flames and stampeded towards the doors, which led to the deaths of 86 people who were trampled, crushed, or asphyxiated. Eleven others survived with injuries. People in the gallery had to escape by running down two flights of stairs.
According to United Press International reports published in United States newspapers, a crowd of three thousand people formed the next day at the city hospital seeking to identify the victims. Thirty-seven women and sixteen children were among the dead.
According to an advertisement in the Sunday, 6 July 1941 edition of the Guadalajaran daily newspaper El Informador, the theater was showing Bulldog Drummond's Revenge and La vuelta del Charro Negro.
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The Preparatoria De Jalisco is a school upper secondary education located in the historic city centre of Guadalajara in Mexico.
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The Guadalajara International Film Festival is a week-long film festival held each March in the Mexican city of Guadalajara since 1986.
The presence in Guadalajara of delegates from other important festivals from around the world has helped Mexican cinema to have a strong international presence in the last twenty years. The festival has also helped to revitalize the careers of some older more established Mexican and English speaking artists like Arturo Ripstein, Gabriel Figueroa, María Félix, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Silvia Pinal, Ignacio López Tarso, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Felipe Cazals, Jorge Fons, Katy Jurado, and Ismael Rodríguez as well as many others.
The festival features an official competition, similar to other festivals like Cannes, and an international jury presents awards in several category at the end of each festival, many of which are accompanied by cash prizes.
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Templo de Jesús María is a church in Centro, Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
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The Santuario railway station is the tenth station of Line 3 of the Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano of Guadalajara from south-east to north-west, and the ninth in the opposite direction.
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