One of the good things left in Paris by the pretty Exposition of 1937 is a new and handsome Trocadéro, on the Seine not far from a new and handsomer Museum of Modern Art. The proximity is fitting, for the Trocadero is to house the choicest examples in France of primitive and folk art, twin toys of modernism. Last week the "Museum of Man" in the west half of the Trocadéro was completed with the gala opening of an American Room.*
On the whole less rich than the British Museum or the Berlin Ethnographic Museum, this outgrowth of the French Ethnographical Institute...
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