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This is "VillaLobos Week"-according to the U.S. League of Composers, which is celebrating the first North American visit of South America's best-known composer: plump, talkative, 57-year-old Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is also the bouncy Brazilian's second week of Manhattan performances and the halfway point in his U.S. schedule of guest-conducting (Los Angeles' Janssen Symphony, Manhattan's Philharmonic, Stokowski's New York City Symphony, the Boston Symphony...
...Villa-Lobos legend (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940, et seq.) goes back to his youth, when he picked up a living playing in Brazilian cafes and theaters. When he be came known as a composer, he voiced a characteristic self-tribute: "Better bad of mine than good of others." Sent to France in 1922 on a Brazilian Government scholarship, he told his Paris teachers: "I didn't come to study with you; I came to show you what I've done...
They did not frighten off the Brazilian Government, which last week was still trying, by dropping manufactured goods from airplanes, to rouse in the Chavantes a yearning for civilization...
Inaudible Christians. South of the Chavantes live the Bororos. Nominal Christians, they work on the farms of the Catholic priests who converted them, but frequently disappear on week-long hunting trips. Their big game is Brazilians, whose skulls they mash in the classic Chavante manner, in hope of laying the blame on their pagan neighbors. Brazilian frontiers men fear them more than they do the Chavantes, and wish that they had never been converted to Christianity...
...tight-strung jai alaiers (16 Cubans, seven Spaniards, three Mexicans, one Brazilian) now playing in Miami and making $250 to $650 a month for their work, stepped up their frenzied game to win the new audiences for keeps. The present top performer is a veteran Spaniard, 40-year-old, balding José Garate, who played seven seasons in Shanghai before the war. The box-office star is Enrique ("Superman") Vallejo, a none-too-agile, 191-lb. Cuban who whips the ball with terrific force. Win, lose or draw, he is billed - and viewed by many female fans - as the Errol...