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...searched the files of the Berkeley Public Library, but I can't find a line about Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin," writes a woman in California. "Is he related to the late great Metropolitan basso...
...plummet his voice from coloratura soprano to Chaliapin bass. But-it is not his voice that enthralls his fans, it is his lingo. For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,† is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans. Pocho, which literally means something that has lost its color, has come to stand for the thousands of Mexicans near or across the border who have ruined their Spanish without ever quite learning English. To aficionados Tin Tan is high satire...
This is Senior Editor Dana Tasker, all-around executive assistant to the managing editor. His biggest single job is to make sure we have the right pictures and maps to help you visualize the news and to work with Artists Artzybasheff, Baker and Chaliapin on TIME'S cover paintings...
Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser...
...lend a hand. The research staff often spends hours checking the authenticity of a single detail. And the actual work of painting a TIME cover is so exacting that we need three top-flight artists to keep up with our requirements-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff, and Boris Chaliapin (son of the Metropolitan basso). All these painters have such interesting stories that some week soon I will try to tell you about each of them...