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...Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...would be cause for bewilderment if a Manhattan theatre season could proceed to its conclusion without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
...Maya is a series of nine intimate scenes in the life of a waterfront whore. These scenes, beautifully played by Aline MacMahon, allow the audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine...
Basketball was originally a religious sport and had its beginnings a thousand years ago in the limestone pits and courts of Yucatan, according to Dr. S. G. Morley '07, who for three years has been directing excavations at Chichea Itza, a city of the ancient Maya Indians in northeast Yucatan under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Washington...
...narrative of the Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...