Word: chich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodigal Son. In the winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight...
Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...
Many distinctive features are to be found in the 1934 edition of "The Greenwich Village Follies." Chich York and Rose King are its co-stars. They are ably assisted by Coley Worth, comedian; Edith Drake, prima donna; Ayres and Rene, with Rasche, adaglo dancers; True Yorke, daughter of the headliners; Ernest Charles, stage, screen and radio tenor; the Greenwich Village male octette, and Ruby Norton, musical comedy and vandeville favorite. The Three California Redheads, feminine dancing beauties, are an added feature attraction. The ensemble is made up of thirty Greenwich Village beauties...