Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexicans still speak knowingly of how Comrade Alexandra Kollontay, first Soviet female envoy, met onetime Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles in Berlin, crossed the Atlantic "on the same boat," remained in Mexico as Minister "until they quarreled" (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Last week this scarlet diplomat, wearing a black taffeta gown, drew about her shoulders a soft chinchilla wrap upon which blazed the Soviet Order of the Red Star, stepped into a Royal Coach. The equipage was that of Gustaf V, King of the Swedes. At a merry clip Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted...
...both sides of the continent critics and public now have a chance to judge the mature work of a painter who has become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century Conquistador es. One-armed, squarejawed, thickset, with glittering spectacles he looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol...
...East's view of Orozco is obtainable this week at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan. Two of his huge canvases are part of the loan exhibition of Mexican art circulated by the Carnegie Institute and the American Federation of Arts, sponsored by ex-Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow and Dr. Frederick A. Keppel. Artist Orozco himself is further downtown squatting on a scaffold in the new School of Social Research, painting great swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square...
...Michigan State. The result was a dull, scoreless tie. For the first time in 40 years Duke's- line charged hard enough and their backs ran fast enough to beat Virginia. Duke 32, Virginia 0. Louisiana's passing was too complicated to be solved, but the Mexican team showed they have learned something since they took up football last year under Reginald Root of Yale. Louisiana 33, Mexico...
...~Nov. 10?Exhibition of Mexican fine & applied art; at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan. Joint sponsors: Carnegie Corporation and retired Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow...