Word: automata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting includes early illustrations in the books of legend, later gener scenes with ornamental borders, two of the curious "Automata", and several miniature portraits. The pottery may be summarized briefly as cream-colored ware and the famous turquoise blue, luster ware and tiles, and certain embossed and lustred bowls of great rarity...
Ably abetted by John Murray Anderson and no less than seven costume designers, Albert Johnson has set the show in superb fashion. The first crack out of the Johnson paint box is a charming mechanical clock revolving in centre stage. Two automata strike at bells while other mummers, masked and mounted on wooden disks like toy soldiers, circle past. With this pantomime of musical revue, Life Begins at 8:40 gets off to a good start at about...