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When Diego Rivera went home from Paris in 1921, he saw his native Mexico more appreciatively. Particularly he cast a fresh eye on a primitive art that no one else seemed to care about. He journeyed into the Pacific Coast provinces west of Mexico City, and began picking up pieces of precious art for about a peso apiece...
...anti-Franco exile in Lisbon, or some other conservative, if a change could be achieved without bloodshed. Two weeks ago Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, who, as bishop of Salamanca, had helped Franco mightily during the civil war, explained his present position toward the Spanish regime. "During Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, I proclaimed that the Church is above politics. I repeated it during the Republic. I said it again for the first time in many years in my Pastoral last May." Asked to enlarge on this statement, Pla y Deniel merely shrugged and laughed...
...result of the ensuing storm, his friends decided that he had been "abused" long enough. Last week 500 left-wingers, including Diego Rivera and Dolores del Rio, who extended the hand of fellowship (see cut), gathered in big, drafty Chapultepec Restaurant in Mexico City, gave Lombardo a dreamed-up award: "Decoration of the Combatant." Citation: the Mexican "most assailed by reactionaries and imperialists...
There was a time when Italy led the world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
...Marika Rivera, another little-noted daughter of a much-noted man, also got her picture in the papers (see cut). A dancer, the shapely offspring of shapeless Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, she turned up on the Riviera, got a little nonsensical publicity by trying on the shoulder pads of a footballer on the U.S. Air Forces all-star team...