Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible, yet "not wholly fantastic." Last week Ealing's latest, The Man in the White Suit (see below), was being greeted with whoops of laughter by audiences in Manhattan. True to formula, the story is improbable but possible (it revolves around a scientist who invents an indestructible fabric), and it proved once again that Ealing's methods-at least by Hollywood's standards-are nearly as fantastic as the picture's plot...
...White Suit (Rank; Universal-International) spins a colorful yarn out of whole cloth about a research chemist (Alec Guinness) who invents an artificial fabric that will never stain or wear out. The result is top-grade movie material with the quality of good British woolen, the frothiness of fine French lace...
Even though it is the biggest wool and worsted fabric maker in the world, American Woolen Co. has been badly scared by the textile depression. Its three-block-long mill in Lawrence, Mass., world's largest worsted mill, is running at about half speed, and its 21 other mills in New England are either running below capacity or have been shut down...
...Bauhaus, Gropius gathered a brilliant group of teachers and students to apply his ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
Back in 1940, Lewenthal persuaded Grant Wood to translate his famed Midnight Ride of Paul Revere into a fabric pattern-but no manufacturer would buy it. Last year Lewenthal tried again, and got Manhattan's huge Riverdale fabric company to print not only Midnight Ride but designs by seven other painters too. Four are reproduced on the opposite page...