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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he...
Francisco Goitia lives as a recluse in the Indian village of Xochimilco on the edge of a floating garden. In his youth he went to Europe but returned like the others to build up a Mexican art tradition. During the Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of...
Last week report of his most recent work, on brain extracts, reached the general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured...
* The San Francisco Opera Association and the Los Angeles Opera Association work in collaboration. The producing companies and repertoires are essentially the same. The chorus is picked from local talent in both cities. The orchestra for the Los Angeles Opera is made up of players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
¶ At Hackensack, N. J., one Willie Schaeffer, who calls himself "the strongest man," held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. ¶ In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs...