Word: pany
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the ablest, certainly the best known living fresco painter is paunchy Diego Rivera, twice a member of the Communist Party, once expelled for disobedience. Because the owner of the Hotel Reforma, Alberto J. Pani, onetime Mexico's Secretary of Finance, was a friend, Artist Rivera agreed to decorate his hotel for 4,000 pesos, just enough to pay his expenses...
Hotel Keeper Pani waited for the fresco to dry and set, then with superficial overpainting removed the calf-faced officer, changed the colors of the flag, changed the features of the composite dictator. Muralist Rivera once had an entire fresco panel by Jean Chariot chopped off a Mexican wall because it did not match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace...
Said Hotelman Pani: "We changed the paintings with our own hands as we had a perfect right to do." At week's end the murals came down entirely, mirrors took their place...
Married. Consuelo Pani, daughter of Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's Minister of Finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation to the late World Monetary & Economic Conference; and Diego Covarrubias (first cousin of famed Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias), son of the late Miguel Covarrubias, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Great Britain, brother-in- law of Rinaldo de Lima e Silva, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; in Mexico City...