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Show Music Arts Lecture I Scheduled for Mar. 16 If -l.1 I '-. V-iiv R V ti, I 'i Z-I ... Gusti T. R. YBARRA , T. R. Ybarra, author of "Young Man of Caracas" and other books, and veteran foreign correspondent, will SDeak here Friday. March 16.' , at the Public School Auditorium. (The discussion will be presented under the auspices of the Music Arts Association. ! For many years on the staff of the New York Times, and European Editor of Collier's Weekly for noar-jly noar-jly seven years, Mr. Ybarra has been writing on International af-I af-I fairs almost continuously for mors j than two decades. He was for a time commentator for the National Broadcasting Company of WJZ. Recently he has been lecturing on Journalism as a member of the faculty of the School of Journalism of Columbia University, New York C4ty. In addition to his best-selling "Voung Man of Caracas", Mr. Ybarra has written a number of other books, including "America Faces South"; "Bolivar, the Passionate Pas-sionate Warrior"; and "Cervantes". Two years ago he wrote "Young Man of the World", which dealt largely with his personal adventures as a foreign correspondent. In 1924, he was sent abroad by the New York Times as that newspaper's news-paper's Berlin correspondent and he made the German capital his res!-! dence for nearly two years. Then' he became London correspondent of i the New York Times tnd later Rov-1 ing European Correspandent for that paper, which gave him an admirable opportunity for travel in Europe and the Near East. In 1931. Mr. Ybarra went to Collier's Col-lier's as European Editor and he held this post until 1937. It brought him not only more travel all over Europe, NorthernAfrica. etc., but also al-so an extensive trip through ' Latin America. In 1937 he returned to the New York Times in order to undertake another long Journey through Latin America. A collection of his newspaper and magazine articles ar-ticles on Latin America, written for Collier's and the New York Times, forms part of his book "America Faces South." ' |