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...completed in 1709 at a cost of $3,000,000. This, says skeptical Terry's guidebook, "is no doubt a gross exaggeration." By last week, some $800,000 had been spent in alterations, and clerics and pilgrims were ready for the opening ceremonies of the 400th anniversary fiesta: reconsecration of the altars, high mass, a view of the tilma, its holy image and the bejewelled Sacred Golden Crown of the Virgin, quoted...
Detroit last week was privileged to witness a four-day fiesta which rivaled a Eucharistic Congress in size, a Yale-Harvard boat race in the intensity of its merrymaking. More than 100,000 of the American Legion's 1,046,009 members convened nationally for the 13th time. Across the river in Windsor, Canada, government liquor stores were kept open two hours later than usual in the evening. In Detroit, young women dressed in the manner of cinematic French peasantry served doughnuts in a model French village. Mascot gila monsters, rattlesnakes, burros, skunks were displayed all over town...
Indians who drifted from their pueblos to Santa Fe last week for their September fiesta and spree found a new building in that capital. Resident Indians, who work as servants and guides, explained like peasant gossips to the newcomers that the new structure was a Laboratory of Anthropology. A rich man from the East called John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who was over at Tucson last spring had given $200,000 for the building. He was very rich, owned coal mines in Colorado...
...Laboratory of Anthropology, about which Santa Fe's fiesta-attending Indians gossiped, has just been formally opened. It is the world's only institution of its kind. Its purpose: to answer man's ever lasting curiosity about how he came to live as he does. In the dry U. S. South west, as in dry Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia, remnants of his early society still persist. Diligent searchers find tidbits of information which indicate how families grouped into tribes, tribes into peoples; how man progressed with his domestic utensils, from woven baskets to turned pots, from...
Moving across a background of great scenic attractiveness, and indulging in an occasional fiesta the hero manages to keep active, while Mary Astor and Marian Nixon exert themselves to live up to the respective names of Rosita and Dolores. For the sake of these two there is much hard riding, but in the end el Puma realized that might does make right, and bows his head to the inevitable...