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Professor Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared...
...trend, for it came as the fourth of a series of similar arrests of British Knights with young women in Hyde Park. The other Knights are Sir Basil Home Thomson, onetime Chief of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Scotland Yard (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), secondly Sir Arthur Evans, famed archeologist, discoverer of buried civilizations in Crete, and most reprehensively of all Sir Almeric Fitzroy, onetime Clerk of His Majesty's Privy Council and intimate of that late & lusty monarch Edward...
Theodore of Amasia lived and died for his faith in God many centuries ago. In his honor, the citizens of Jerash, Trans-jordania, built a church with three apses, a court and a fountain. The ruins of this church were found last week by a Yale Archeologist, one J. W. Crawfoot...
...with colorful people, rainbow scenery, amazing weather. The lean, kind, sandy figure of Kit Carson welcomes the Bishop at Taos. Navajos, Zuñis, Acomas, remnants of the cleanly pueblo tribes, move quietly about in smaller villages, vivid as their blankets and pottery, drawn with the patient accuracy of an archeologist. Cornelian hills circle Santa Fé, where the cathedral arises like a golden butte. Windstorms smother the bishop on the plains, cloudbursts drench him among the peaks...
...lecture will he presented from the point of view of an archeologist rather than that of a religionist...