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Maya. Most Mexicans are of Indian descent; either pure-blooded or mixed (mestizo). As Indians, their artists have never felt adequately fathered by the Old Masters of Europe. Between 1910 and 1920, when Rivera and fellow Mexicans quit trying to paint like third-rate Spaniards, they claimed as a vital part of their tradition the Maya Indian culture which flourished before the Spanish conquest. But if Maya sculpture and design became art to modern Mexicans, they remained archeology to most of the rest of the world. Last week the first big U.S. exhibition of Maya relics as objects...
...year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
...Third great reason for small U. S. book sales is the price of books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past...
...shady figure named Ingram Frizer, once a confidence man, employed by Marlowe's patron; one was a thief named Nicholas Skeres, who was mixed up in one of the Catholic conspiracies around Mary Queen of Scotland, and finally jailed for taking part in Essex uprising against Elizabeth. The third, Robert Poley, an important figure in the British secret service, had returned that morning from a confidential mission abroad. He had become Walsingham's agent after a term in jail, had wormed his way into intimacy with the leaders of the Catholic party, intercepted their secret correspondence with Mary...
Frederic Holdsworth, Jr. '40, of Brookline, was second in the competition, while Frederick R. B. Witherby '40, of Providence, Rhode Island, finished third...