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...Into New Mexico to campaign for him went Montana's Wheeler, Colorado's Cortigan, Wisconsin's La Follette, Nebraska's Norris. The A. F. of L. endorsed and Albert Bacon Fall called him '"unbeatable." Yet last week Senator Cutting was beaten by Democrat Dennis Chavez. Strangely enough, Senator-elect Chavez could thank in no small measure for his success the efforts in his behalf of the tall greying daughter of the late great Republican Boss Mark Hanna. Outdone with Senator Cutting's radical insurgency, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, a thoroughgoing Republican, crossed party...
Chokopul (Conductor Leopold Stokowski) returned to his own people six weeks ago and as a souvenir of his travels he presented with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company last week the world premiere of H. P., a "ballet-symphony" written five years ago by Carlos Chavez, the Mexican who guided him on his musical tour. Ravel's L'Heitre Espagnole served as curtain-raiser, a naughty opera concerning a clockmaker's insatiable wife, never intended for the literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters...
...materialistic orgy. For the finale a bland, fat-faced Mexican sun descended to blot out the noxious stock ticker, a sun whose face bore a flattering likeness to Painter Rivera's. For this triumphant scene the noisy music was at its noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant tango. A cultural renaissance is having its start in obsidian Mexico. Rivera represents the painter's side. His frescoes all about Mexicans have been chosen to adorn governmental walls in Mexico City. Composer Chavez, director...
...Chamber the attack against Governor de la Mora had just got under way. As unostentatiously as possible many of Mexico's lawmakers divided into little groups and stood near the exits eying each other. In the midst of an anti-de la Mora speech by Deputy Jose Manuel Chavez, two Jalisco deputies, Manuel H. Ruiz and Esteban Garcia de Alba, sprang up demanding to be heard. Ismael Lozano. President of the Chamber, denied them and immediately adjourned the session...
...still wild & woolly country. One of them is jungly eastern Bolivia, which natives call the Chaco, which Author Duguid calls Green Hell. Before Duguid and his two companions (J. C. Bee-Mason and Mamerto Urriolagoitia), to their knowledge no white men had penetrated that tract since Nuflo de Chavez...