Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widow from Monte Carlo (Warner) frames the noteworthy Aztec beauty of Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...
...mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels depict, first, the rise of the Toltec culture, based on the tools of peace; next, the Aztec culture, based on the tools of war. The culminating panel, Muralist Katz decided, should represent modern Youth walking between its twin heritages of creation and destruction...
...dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists, too categorically for such cautious Americanists as Philip Means (Ancient Civilization of the Andes'), that wandering Polynesians or Chinese, in search of "life-givers" such as gold, landed somewhere along the coasts of South or Central America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never...
...Mitchell lays about him with such infectious vigor that one almost forgets that other archeologists who are interested in the cultures of pre-Columbian America are still agnostic about the origins of the Inca, Aztec and Maya Indian civilizations. And if one looks at a map of the world, one is struck by the vast distances between outposts of Polynesia and America, between Easter Island and Chile, between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico. Could Polynesians or Chinese, in their small boats or canoes, have traversed such forbidding stretches of water to bring a god of Egyptian origin to Yucatan...
...warrior President of a nation of warriors General Cárdenas has named the son born to him last May after the last Aztec warrior Emperor of Mexico, famed Cuauhtemoc...