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Mannings Impressed
by Travel in Mexico

 

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The later civilizations’ on the pla-
teau derived from this Mayan civiliza-
tion, in much the same way that Ro-
man civilization took over that of
Greece. The plateau peoples adopted
the Mayan plumed serpent and were
strongly influenced by the unbroken
tradition of the Mayans.

The Aztecs came comparatively late
in the history of Mexico and made lit-
tle contribution to civilization. ‘The
people whom the Aztecs conquered—
Toltec, the Aztecs called them—left
extraordinary remains. They were
warlike and “extremely unpleasant,’
in contrast to the present-day Mexi-
cans, who are, said Mrs. Manning,
“the most peaceful and geritlé people
I have ever seen.”

In 1516, the “iron fist” of the Span-
ish empire crushed the Aztecs. After
Philip had conquered them, all wealth
—consisting mostly of precious stones
and metal—went to Spain by way of
Mexico, largely through the pictur-
esque little port of Acapulco.

Mr. Manning, who gladly assumed
the responsibility of expressing “the
Manning enthusiasm about Mexico,”
said that it was not -the continuity of
Mexican civilization but the quality of
the Mexican people that he felt the
most in Mexico. Old Spain and New
have for him the same charm—al-
though he was unwilling to admit the
possibility of being charmed until he
was twenty-nine years old, when he
finally and very unwillingly left Bos-
ton and saw the West for the first

time. hat a small Spanish inn, he and his
More alluring than the strangeness | friend, since they spoke no Spanish,
and “something foreign” to be found }looked up the word for lamb-chop in
in Mexico—typified by the old Indians'their phrase-book. _ Mr. Manning
holding banana stalks filled with or- courteously asked the landlady for a
chids, that one sees from the ‘train;lamb-chop; she looked at him blank-
window,—are the people. New Mex- ly; he repeated the word again and
ican and old Mexican, new Spaniard again with no seeming success. She
and old Spaniard, share the spirit of | smiled when he gave up in despair,
democracy and of family devotion. left the room and in a short tinie
They are kind, gay, unhypocritical,} returned,’ bearing, with the aid of a
cruel at times, above all picturesque. little girl behind her, sixteen lamb-
Flandreau, in his delightful book on! chops. She' had mentally added up
Mexico, calls them “always pictorial | his demands, one by one. Mr, Man-
and always dramatic,” though at first ning was not horrified, but, on the
everyone in Mexico looked to him like|eontrary, delighted when, while he
a home-made cigar. As a professor|was watching the people come from
from Swarthmore put it: “I can see | church on Saint’s Day in Santa Fe,
how a Mexican Indian might kill you | New Mexico, his cook, Rita, approach
—but he would always do it courteous-|ed him and said in loud, democratic
ly.” In Mexico even a gruesome mur- tones: “’Ello, Freddy!”
der in a gutter looks like a scene; The so-called degenerate Spaniard of
from a comic opera. ’ ' Mexico does not look at all degenerate
but is tall and rather blonde. The
average Mexican is plump and grace-
ful with rounded modelling and keau-
tiful little hands and feet. Not ef-

They are completely non-pecuniary.
If one plans to give a dinner party
on a fiesta day, he will not find a single
servant in the kitchen to prepare the

“awful”—and indigestible — Mexican
food. If, however, the host tells his
servants he is going to give a fiesta,
he will find the whole village helping
in his kitchen, not for money but just
for the-fun of it.

They have worked out an extraordi-
nary development in the art of living:
—courtesy. Courtesy to the Spanish
Indian and to the Mexican is a “com-

plete democratic recognititr-of fellow-
ship with another human being.” Mr.
Manning loves to be courteous. He

practiced the gentle art all over Spain
once in a thirty-day expedition, with
an uncourteous but charming friend.

feminately, but delicately formed, he
has marvelous — and. surprising—
muscles. He is so interesting and de-
lightful to watch that the visitor to
Mexico acquires the plaza and _ bal-
cony habit immediately; and to. sit
and watch the passers-by becomes
one of his greatest diversions. An
American engineer’ said of them,
“Even when they ain’t doin’ nothin’,
you always feel as if they was doin’
somethin’.”’ They might be summed
up in one word—fascination. They
are completely unlike us.

We tend to think of the “Mexican

 

 

Government as decadent because it

 

 

 

has not gone through the stages that
other governments_have, in process of
evolution—as for example the parlia-
mentary stage of government “which
is now being given up in Europe. The
original Mexican form of government
was, however, fortunately very similar
to the Spanish. The Mexicans never
had to work out a government for
themselves and interrupt civilization
in the process, but simply to keep their
own government and appropriate any
minor needful changes from Spain.
Spain never had much power in the
small Mexican communities. The
Mexicans always feared a central gov-
ernment that might attempt to con-
trol these more or less independent
communities.

 

Clayton Hamilton Will Talk
-on Revival of Yellow Jacket

 

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Ladd, the original “Daffodil,” and
Arthur Shaw, the creator of the
“Property Man” to recreate the orig-
inal.

Clayton Hamilton is presenting Mr.
and Mrs. Coburn in The Yellow Jac-
ket because he is genuinely interested
in giving the world-famous American
play to the present theatre-going pub-
lic of this country. He comes to speak
in the Deanery, on the afternoon of
Thursday, March 8, from his knowl-
edge of the American theatre and his
enthusiasm fon the Hazelton-Benrimo
play, to restore our confidence and
pride in our native playwrights. The
play opens this week, Tuesday, March

5, at the Garrick, with a special re-

 

duction on $2.20 seats to the College,
if tickets are obtained through’ the

Publication Office.

 

Movie Review

After having seen Anna Sten lurk-
ing on the theatre page of the Herald
Tribune in assorted attitudes of seduc-
tion for some weeks, and having been
told that she is the obvious successor
to Greta Garbo, and that she will end
up by putting the Soviet Republic on
its feet socially, we finally téok our-
selves to see the famous Nana. We
were able to rush out after the “first
five.minutes and wire Garbo not to
worry too much, and then to return
and enjoy a picture which was no bet-
ter than mediocre at best, but which
had a certain spirit ‘about it which
came, to its rescue at\ the crucial
points.

Although the story of the girl who
rose from poverty to riches as the
toast of theatre-loving Paris, and es-
pecially of the male element, is sup-
posed to be adopted from the novel of
Zola, that worthy would have a hard
time indeed picking his brain child out
of a line-up as it has turned out, As
the queen of the revues of nineteenth
century Paris, Miss Sten is called
upon to sing one of the better modern
torch songs to the effect that “That’s
Love,”*--and~ -her~-manoeuvers smack
loudly of Hollywood from start to fin-
ish. There is no denying that Miss Sten
is possessed of a coquettish appeal,
but it can hardly be raised to the level
of the famous “sex appeal” of our dra-
matic film sirens. She has lovely eyes,

which monopolized the camera to a
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