Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been held in Manhattan, Paris, London (TIME, April 119th). Plain gallery-goers sometimes find it difficult to understand much of an art which has nothing whatever to do with the civilized European concept of Beauty, but which stems directly from the basic emotion of fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art the bronzes and carvings of the vanished Kingdom...
...attracted to Tibet by stories of a mountain higher than Everest, and by accounts of vast gold fields that also lured Gordon Enders. Two of Harrison Forman's companions were killed by Chinese bandits. MARCH HARE-Elsa Smithers-Oxford ($3). Quiet autobiography of a native of the South African Republic who lived through the Boer War, several gold rushes, knew many of the South African notables of her day. THROUGH MY OPEN DOOR - Lucia Whitney-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of the ten-year illness of a well-known U. S. novelist who writes under a pseudonym, gives her impressions...
...stratagems peculiar to Benito Mussolini, most typical is what he calls "changing the guard." A Finance Minister at the zenith of successful budgeting is abruptly returned to his private business, as was Count Volpi. A national hero like Atlantic-soaring Italo Balbo is swept off to rule an African province. Last week such a jolt came even to one of the "Four Men," the original Quadrumvirs who led the March on Rome while Mussolini gave orders from 400 miles away in Milan...
...outgoing Prime Minister Bennett. Promptly he set matters right with the Empire by announcing that he had really intended to visit London before Washington but had changed his plans because of the impending British elections (see p. 18). Then he dropped in at the British Embassy and the South African Legation to show that Canada really was not snub- bing the Empire. Next morning the Canadian Prime Minister called on Secretary Hull, but his important interview was reserved for later. That evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had at their dinner table the Prime Minister; Secretary Hull; Oscar Douglas Skelton...
...again and in the scholastic harness. Tonight he will sleep in his four poster and dream sweet dreams and maybe a nightmare or two--there is always the game. And tomorrow he will awake and, still with mixed thoughts of Manhattan, be off to see some "Moving Pictures of African Wild Life." The Vagabond feels this will be a relief after his escapade to the City...