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...both sides of the continent critics and public now have a chance to judge the mature work of a painter who has become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century Conquistador es. One-armed, squarejawed, thickset, with glittering spectacles he looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol...
With a rustle and vibrant clearing of Her Majesty's throat the Speech-from-the-Throne began. It touched first, continued to touch on unemployment, economic depression. Keynote: "Strenuous efforts and wise policy, with God's help, must pave the way to better times...
...roar of 100,000 voices rose from Fascist militia men packed and jammed into the great square before the Palazzo Vecchio, on a balcony of which Il Capo stood. -'No, No!" rumbled the ocean of voices, 'you are not changed! Viva Il Capo! VIVA IL CAPO!" Vibrant with exultation, overpowered as well he might be by the effect he had produced. Benito Mussolini shouted from the balcony with rapturous joy, "Magnifico ! Magnified !" Next day of course the French Ambassador protested at the foreign office, but Il Capo doubtless felt his fun had been worth that...
Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...
Born to Be's illustrator, young Mexican Miguel de Covarrubias, chiefly known in the U. S. for his drawings in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, provides splendiferous and glaring drawings, appropriate to the vibrant story, exhibiting his amazing knack for racial characteristics...