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...start, Statsinger's explorations were in odd techniques. As a student, she made hundreds of "photograms" by arranging bits of string and other objects on sheets of film, exposing the film to the light, and printing the abstract result. She also learned the ancient craft of designing batik, the stuff sarongs are made of. Echoes of the South Seas. The Stat-singer drawings on exhibition last week seemed as relaxed in composition as her "photograms" had been, and the floating shapes that filled them echoed, abstractly, carved idols and amulets of the South Seas. But the atmosphere...
...peacetime Huene was a great traveler -to Africa, Indo-China, Bali, Mexico. Until the Germans confiscated it, he had a house in Hammamet, near Tunis. Now he contents himself with a cottage at Glen Cove, Long Island, amiably decorated with batik, leopardskins and rattan furniture. He wants to do a lot more archeological photography, especially of half-obliterated ruins from the vantage point of a balloon...
...Wilfred helped finance Eva Gauthier's musical education. She went to Europe. Intelligence and imagination helped her make much of a voice neither opulent nor particularly wide of range. She married a Dutchman (since divorced), went to Java to live. In Java she acquired her liking for Batik gowns and heavy oriental jewelry which seemed to go with her shiny black hair, her curious, slow-spreading smile. When she arrived in the U. S., she had added Javanese folk music to her repertoire...
Yachtsmen, debutantes, landscape painters and batik dyers who summer on Cape Cod motored over to Dennis, Mass, last week for the opening of "The Cinema." Cape Cod's latest, most up to date playhouse, designed by Alfred Easton Poor, Manhattan architect. All eyes sought the ceiling which displayed the first mural painting ever undertaken by bald, busy, noteworthy Artist Rockwell Kent. Not only is "The Cinema's" ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times...
...Architectural and Allied Arts." Every conceivable material, furnishing utility for the construction or adornment of a covered structure was thei exhibited by its manufacturer. Lifted high on a dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...