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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show: where did the original inhabitants of the Americas come from? Some experts believe that the Toltecs and the Aztecs drifted to the central plains of Mexico from Asia, by way of Alaska. The tantalizing, inconclusive "evidence" that keeps cropping up in early Mexican art: what looks like Chinese jade, Oriental symbols, the swastika and a few Grecian motifs which filtered into China from Greece hundreds of years before Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Faces of America | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...neat, to satisfy the exacting requirements of serious literature. But, it is among the best popular fictional accounts of the conquistadores that has appeared (less burdened with history than Edward Stucken's The Great White Gods), less exotic than Salvador de Madariaga's The Heart of Jade. As good reading, certain to take the minds of thousands of readers off their troubles for tens of thousands of hours, Captain from Castile is first rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Stop Adventure | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Hollywood, whose great ladies may water-ski in evening gowns, Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos became rich and famous and was known as Lupe Velez. She lived in a Spanish mansion, bathed in a jade-green tub, slept in a bed which was eight feet square, and was courted by many handsome men. She had been impatient with her good home in Mexico and with San Antonio's Convent of Our Lady of the Lake, where she was instructed in the duties of womanhood. But although she lived in Hollywood for 17 years and changed the color of her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Guadaloupe | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...quest the detective interviews a wonderful, boozy old floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Jade, played by Katherine Hopburn, symbolizes the new era. Miss Hepburn is aincere and convincing and proves, that she can handle a dramatic part with the same effectiveness as a comedy role, while Walior Huston lends strength and dignity to the part of the head of the family. Akim Tamiroff as the Chinese Quisling is perhaps the only one not well cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Dragon Seed" | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

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