Bartolomé Ángel Venancio Alberto Vaccarezza (1886–1959) was an Argentine

Argentina

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 poet and playwright.

Vaccarezza was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 on April 1, 1886. He is usually credited as the foremost exponent of the sainete

Sainete

A sainete was a popular Spanish comic opera piece, a one-act dramatic vignette, with music. It was often placed at the end of entertainments, or between other types of performance. It was vernacular in style, and used scenes of low life. Active from the 18th to 20th centuries, it superseded the...

 genre, having written its most popular play, El Conventillo de La Paloma (The La Paloma Tenement

Tenement

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). He was a friend and collaborator of Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel was a singer, songwriter and actor, and is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was born in Toulouse, France, although he never acknowledged his birthplace publicly, and there are still claims of his birth in Uruguay. He lived in Argentina from the age of two...

, and pronounced his eulogy

Eulogy

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 when Gardel was interred at La Chacarita Cemetery

La Chacarita Cemetery

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.

Besides his literary activities, he presided over Argentores (the national playwright guild) and Casa del Teatro (House of Theater, a beneficent organization that hosts impoverished retired actors).

He died in Buenos Aires, on August 6, 1959.

Sainete

• Cuando un pobre se divierte
• El conventillo de La Paloma¡¡
• Tu cuna fue un conventillo
• La comparsa se despide (1932)
• Los scruchantes (1911)
• El juzgado (1903, his first play)

Poetry - Tango Lyrics

• La copa del olvido
• Araca, corazón
• Otario que andás penando
• Eche otra copa pulpero
• No me tires con la tapa de la olla
• Pobre gringo
• Virgencita del Talar

Film Scripts

• El conventillo de La Paloma (1936)
• Lo que le pasó a Reynoso (1937 y 1955)
• Viento norte (1937)
• Murió el sargento Laprida (1937)
• El cabo Rivero (1938)
• Pampa y cielo (1938)
• El comisario de Tranco Largo (1942)
• Sendas cruzadas (1942)

External links

• Short Biography (English)
• Biography (Spanish)
• Vacarezza at Info-Almagro (Spanish)