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...winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French...
Once upon a time there was a small edition of a chariot race in "Ben Hur," a minute earthquake in "San Francisco," and, unless memory fails, it seems the locusts came to call in "The Good Earth"; a few hundred extras were shot or trampled on in "Charge of the Light Brigade," but to see nature in the raw without once thinking of miniatures, wind machines, or water chutes, to see the best love scenes in many a moviegoing month, to experience two full hours of complete mental anguish, a trip to "Hurricane" is essential...
Eddie Cantor is himself but this time no more fantastic than the rest of the cast. Evidently unsatisfied with his aquaplane-ski-chariot ride in "Roman Scandals," Mr. Cantor again falls asleep to dream of the past in terms of the present, a la Conecticut Yaunkee, and to ride on a soaring carpet...
...Your Father, an illustration by Jean Chariot for Paul Claudel's book on Mexico. By a characteristically Bostonian accident, this print was entitled in the exhibition Motherly Care...
Since he finished Swing Low, Sweet Chariot a year ago, slight, clear-headed Artist McCrady has been unaffected by the disposition of everyone who has seen it to make it the McCrady trademark. He has continued to do beautifully colored and dramatic canvases of small Southern towns and cotton country, is now at work on a picture called Judgment Day which will contain no less than 500 figures. An obviously gifted draughtsman, McCrady gets his luminous effects by "under-painting," working in transparent color glazes on a warm, umber ground. Tender, fully imagined, though not profound, his Negro paintings appear...