Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mont's life has a freshness and enthusiasm rare in the records of U. S. public men. He was a galloping, theatrical character-when his first daughter was born, he spread a ragged, wind-whipped flag over Jessie's bed, saying, "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. . . ." Even his calculations were naive and almost innocent, as when he stealthily evaded the War Department when he took a howitzer (for which he had no use) on his third expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins...
DIEGO RIVERA, His LIFE AND TIMES-Bertram D. Wolfe-Knopf...
...book skimps none of the realities in the life of a master realist. At five, having been carefully deceived as to the manner of birth of his sister Maria, Diego was discovered in the kitchen making an incision into a mouse's belly. At eight, he caused even greater consternation when he and Maria were found playing house with the doll-like corpse of a brother who died in infancy...
...Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...
...FINE ARTS--Art for its own sake is the theme of "Ballerina," romanticized French version of life among the "petits rats"--child dancing students of the Paris Opera House. Frankly sentimental, often overdone, and built about a plot which is so poorly constructed as to contain two separate climaxes, the film nevertheless succeeds by virtue of the sheer beauty of the dance, the genuine character of the dancing school atmosphere, and the well-chosen background music. Janine Charrat, as the child ballerina, has been carefully directed with a view to psychological complications by Jean Benoit-Levy, and as a result...