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...Mexican painters are good. But Mexicans paint as naturally as U. S. adolescents shag. Usually their painting says something. Says Critic Helm: "The vitality of the new democratic race of Mexicans has been urgent enough to awaken even Indian artists from their natural drowsiness. To the spectator from the North, accustomed to a European tradition which has assumed technical excellence as an essential means, much of the Mexican painting may seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists...
...shag is passe; the rhumba, conga, and samba are now in vogue. Hollywood has turned towards Latin-America for inspiration, talent, and color. The course enrollments in Spanish and Portuguese have increased noticeably during the past year. Americans are looking southward with benevolent smiles and shiny gold dollars. There is no doubt that America has gone the South American way for a very good reason: there is practically unanimous agreement that it is to our interest to keep Hitler and war from the Western Hemisphere...
Small Shads, called mew yaps, must shag for their elders, rise at 4 a.m. to close the windows in winter, when temperatures of 30° below are no rarity. Divided into Gophers and Badgers for intra mural sports, Shattuck boys excel at most, helped introduce football to the Midwest. When Shads rebel at fish twice a week and ice cream only once, they stiffly march down the hill against orders, march back up again. Some loyal Old Shads: Diplomat Robert Woods Bliss, President George M. Moffett of Corn Products Refining Co., President Henry A. Scandrett of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...
...years ago, many a U. S. citizen who is now a self-conscious balletomane could not tell a chassé from a shag. Russian ballet troupes taught him. First they were the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe; now, after complicated schisms and reorganizations, they are the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the beginning, much of their box-office success has been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers...