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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Terry stood 6 ft. 3 in., weighed 220 lb., had a temper to match. Kentucky-born in 1823, he drifted down to Stephen Austin's colony in Mexican Texas, enlisted in the war for Lone Star independence at 13. Later he practiced law in Houston, and Galveston, fought with the Texas Rangers against Mexico, rushed to California in '49, set up a law office in Stockton. The Know Nothings put him in the State Supreme Court in 1855, but that did not keep him from resting in jail next year while the San Francisco Vigilantes waited...
Eloped. Lucille Langhanke Hawks Thorpe (Mary Astor), 30, redhaired, cinemactress; and Manuel Martinez del Campo, 25, Cambridge-educated Mexican sportsman, to whom she was introduced by Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton; to Yuma, Ariz...
From that nucleus grew the Littlefield Ballet, later the Philadelphia Ballet Company. When, in 1932, Stokowski gave the world premiere of the Mexican ballet H. P. (see col. 3), Catherine Littlefield plotted the choreography. Alexis Dolinoff danced the lead. When the Philadelphia Ballet ran short of men a year ago, Catherine Littlefield signed up her air-pilot brother, Carl. Last week he made a graceful Prince-from-the-West, easily outstripped the other minor characters. Another Littlefield, young sister Dorothie, also filled in ably...
When the Musicians' Union in Mexico City decided to form a symphony orchestra, they asked Chavez to head it. They gave their first concert in September 1928, soon won a subsidy from the Government. In his nine years with the Mexican Symphony, Chavez has built up a crack 90-man personnel and the most open-minded audience in the world. Workers flock to the free concerts he gives for them on Sundays...
...December 1928. He instantly set about cleaning up teaching methods, saw that students learned to play accurately, built a chorus, organized research in native Indian music. From March 1933 to May 1934 Chavez served as Chief of the Department of Fine Arts. There too he pressed for an autonomous Mexican style, resigned his post only because of political changes...