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...Orozco the great figures of what he called "The American Idea" were the enslaved Indian and peon, the conquerors like Cortez, the revolutionists Zapata and Padre Miguel Hidalgo. But Orozco alone of Mexico's Big Three took a hard second look at the world about him and had the courage to draw what he saw: the Marxist "liberator" in turn enslaving the revolutionaries, the Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry...
...stage, the individualistic H. D. C. barely managed to present "Fiesta," a play about Mexican peon life, without being banned by the City censors who claimed the show was "crude and immoral." A smash hit at the box office, "Fiesta" included F. K. Smith '30, G. W. Harrington '30, H. G. Meyer '30, P. S. Davis '30, and R. R. Wallstein '30 in its cast...
California's Imperial Valley. At first his wife would not hear of it. "You're no peon, to work in the lettuce fields," she argued. But Serrano, a short, husky Tarascan Indian, overruled her. "Imagine!" he said. "They pay 80 American cents an hour, 130 pesos a day. We can get another cow or two. In time, a bull. Dresses for you and our daughters." His vision of himself as a bountiful provider grew, and he even talked of buying a farm...
...club's ill-fated production "Fiesta." Miss Gloria Braglotti has been secured to "execute the exotic, primitive dance which climaxes the siesta scene in the play," and F. A. Pickard was in the cast for the world premiere. Eugene O'Neil bad called "Fiesta" the best example of Mexican peon life he had ever read; the author was even journeying to Cambridge to see his play staged. But the long arm of decency stopped in after several complaints from spectators that the play was "crude and immoral." Three days after it opened, the mayor of Boston banned the production...
...people who buy and sell in this new Mexico bear about as much resemblance to the old-fashioned U.S. caricature of a barefoot peon on burro-back as Ruiz Cortines does to Pancho Villa. They are a people who have moved out of the adobe huts into the main stream of urban life. They include professional men trained in modern universities. They eat bread instead of tortillas (thereby creating a brand-new demand for wheat that threatens to shake the country's immemorial corn monoculture). They give their children a good education; they live in houses with hot water...