LENIN MURAL.
OBJECTION IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 11.' Diego Rivera, a foremost Mexican painter of murals, has executed a fresco, (53ft long and 17ft high on the front of Rockefeller Centre, with Lenin's face as the' central feature. When Nelson Rockefeller and the Radio City management realised wlmt was going on, they were too late to cancel the work, so it was arranged to obliterate it by covering it with tar paper.
The Radio City management accuse Rivera of Communistic leanings, but he claims that he Avas kicked out of the Communist party in Mexico, and Rockefeller of assassinating his work.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 7
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