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Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...
...wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned...
...windswept mesa high above the baked Arizona desert, Hopi Indians gathered last week to appease their gods. Below them were two lesser mesas where parched yellow cornstalks rustled in the dry breeze. Above them, a cloudless sky. Across the dusty desert road and up the steep ascent to the topmost mesa went scores of automobiles packed with curious white men & women. Their interest in the famed Hopi Snake Dance was whetted by the sound of muffled drum beats as they neared the grey mud-&-stone village of Hotevilla. But the Hopi, who had heard those drum beats all night, paid...
...people. He fell in love with one of their women, but when he embraced her, she and all the underground Snake people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring were snakes. The Hopi drove the snake children into the desert. They returned to the underworld. The underworldlings, angered, persuaded the gods to withhold rain from the Hopi. Year after year corn withered on its stalk. Finally the Hopi sent out scouts to gather...