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Chris Olsen's first contribution to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan was a wax bedbug, 15,000 times life size. When a vacancy occurred in the Living Invertebrates Department in 1916 Chris Olsen was given a regular job, added submarine painting to his sculpture and magnification. Last week when the Museum gave an exhibition of art works by staff members the public had a chance to see Chris Olsen's latest paintings...
...Dame Nellie Melba, 64, in Sydney, Australia. Her fate was a hideous, unnamed disease. In Cairo, some time ago, she contracted what was presumably some form of Leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by many boils and caused by a microscopic animal parasite which gets into the blood stream supposedly by bedbug or louse bite. She appeared to be cured in the Autumn before leaving England for Australia. On shipboard she suffered a relapse, was carried ashore to Melbourne on a cot. A German doctor who had helped her in the early stages of the disease directed treatment by cable. Three times...
...dead man's dramas were entitled respectively Bathhouse and Bedbug. As long ago as 1910, Poet Mayakovsky founded a school of poetry distinguished by the fact that its members wore canary-yellow blouses, painted their faces according to their moods, green one day, red the next, blue when blue...
Tens of thousands of the mourners who filed through the Writers' Club last week were old soldiers. Not all of them appreciate or understand the poet's later works, the dramas Bathhouse and Bedbug against which even some Moscow dramatic critics carped, one writing that "again like Kipling, our Mayakovsky has never written a great play, however great his poems...
Returning to his house after an all-night party last week with a young actress, who had had a small part in Bedbug, Vladimir Mayakovsky sat down in the grey dawn and began to write...