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...Venezuela, Eugene Manners, oil scout, "matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning . . . and unscrupulous Dutch competitors." The heroine is "Sola Merida . . . whose flamelike beauty had so ill a setting in a foul cafe." Flamelike Sola appears at first as the daughter of Peon Pacheco. In the last chapter she is revealed as the entirely legitimate daughter and heiress of the aristocratic Toros...
...Fiesta" will be given in Brattle Hall, Cambridge on December 12, 13, and 14, and will move to Boston on December 15 for a showing in John Hancock Hall. Eugene O'Neill, upon reading the book, pronounced it the best play of Mexican peon life that he had ever read. Michael Gold, the author of the play, will make a special trip to Cambridge to see the premiere...
...sadness of this heart panting after the waterbrooks of learning in the arid spaces of university life demands pity. To think that such sorrow can be held within one professorial form! Yet perhaps the doctor will soon have found his peace. The heart beneath the surface of some peon bodice may beat for the professor's learning. Some ruffian of the plains may seek wisdom at his fount. How fortunate he is to be removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement...
...other country. Revolts and counter-revolts, executions and dictatorships, nowhere else are either so virulent or so persistent. Only through a rule of iron was Diaz able to maintain order, and at his policy of allowing foreigners to exploit Mexican resources the natives surged with discontent. The Mexican peon is like the dog in the manger; although he cannot govern himself, he will not long tolerate another's doing it; although he himself can not exploit the country's mineral wealth, he is determined that no one else shall...