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...When a Laguna Beach, Calif. garage owner named Harold Bradley was solemnly tapped on the back by his grey-haired fellow citizen Roy M. Ropp and told: "You are The Laughing Cavalier," he neither called a cop, took to his heels, nor swung on the tapper. Like all good Lagunites, Bradley knew at once that this tapping singled him out for an honor-the honor of depicting one of the Living Masterpieces in Director Ropp's famed "Pageant of the Masters...
...colonies in California, Laguna is the artiest. Once a year, Laguna citizens put berets on their heads, hang palettes to the lamp posts along principal streets, welcome thousands of visitors to a ten-day cultural spree...
...Laguna's flag-bedecked festival site last week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
...evolution of Laguna's elaborate art-shindy from the first threadbare effort of 1932, when depression-dumped artists hung their canvases on a fence facing Main Street and hoped for the best, has been gradual but steady. Five years ago, Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated...
After three and a half years of the Six-Year Plan, more than 45% of Mexico's population is now officially listed as living on collective farms. The three largest centres for Cárdenas Collectivism are the vast La Laguna cotton districts, the wheat lands of Sonora, and the henequen region in the Yucatan Peninsula which used to lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody...