LIFE IN MEXICO
AN ARTIST'S IMPRESSIONS A visitor to Wellington last week-end was Mr. H. Nevill Smith, formerly of Christchurch, who has been .living in America for over two years. Mr. Smith is an artist. of merit, and ah interpretative singer, and with such talent was doing very well at Phoenix (Arizona), when depression settled upon America, tie then made a tour of Mexico and Southern California, Where he found much to interest him as.an artist.
“Mexico is a beautiful country,” he said. “I don’t know of another city so exquisitely situated as Mexico City, with its circlet of lakes, and I certainly , know of nothing to approach ihe beauty of the Indian floating gardens at Xochimiteo, nine miles away from the city. Acupulco is also a-beautiful place. But the people—well, they are extremely dirty, though are so hospitable and so charming. 1 never saw sUch lovely children in my life. They all love children No family is ever too big—everyone wants a live baby to play with. If there is only one baby in a party of adults, they seize it from one another and almost tight for its possession.” Mr. Nevill Smith did a. good deal of painting in Mexico, Southern California, and Hawaii.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 6
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