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...Indian mestizos who rule Mexico love nothing so much as a mural full of anti-capitalist symbolism, though they themselves number some of the richest men in North America. Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City's pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more...
...community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action Department. Sole theme limitation was that each must have something remotely to do with the market or the Socialistic ideology of Mexico's National Revolutionary Party or both...
...occasion tomorrow night was announced yesterday, as follows: Professor and Mrs. Jeremiah D. M. Ford, Professor and Mrs. Clarence H. Haring, Professor and Mrs. Andre Morize, Professor and Mrs. Arthur F. Whittem, Colonel and Mrs. Oliver L. Spaulding, Professor and Mrs. Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor Guillermo Rivera, Professor Frederick C. Packard, Jr., Mrs. Daniel H. Marsh, and Mrs. Reid Hunt...
...direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
...VORTEX-José Eustasio Rivera- Putnam ($2.50). Melodramatic Spanish tale of the South American rubber forests. This only novel of its late author is a famed best-seller in his own country...