Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week in the museum's basement, surrounded by museum staffers and Chinese and Japanese scholars, Director Fuller placed the wood boy face down on an improvised operating table and made his incision with a sharp, small-bladed knife. Ultraviolet examination had shown that Golden Boy had already undergone an operation, and Fuller cut along the old, virtually imperceptible scar.* He cut carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold...
Analysis rapidly disclosed that the written material consisted of charms and prayers; the other objects were symbols, principally of the five oldtime Chinese elements or forces essential to life (fire, water, air, wood, metal). But no document was found to show when Golden Boy had been fashioned, though rough chisel marks on the wood were typical of techniques used in the 10th and 11th centuries. From the statue's contents, the scholars concluded that the first operation was probably performed some 300 years ago by Tibetan monks, who installed a new set of innards...
Museum Director Fuller decided to place Golden Boy on special exhibit with the hole in his back and his innards laid out for all to see. In time he will be patched together again with glue and adhesive putty, and will be touched up to look just as good...
...often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film. By the time the bearded old curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine-and wants to see and hear no more commotion about...
...ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while a fine broth of a boy barely escapes the noose...