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Phidias used Pentelic marble, but modern sculptors have a substance still whiter (and easier) to carve: Ivory Soap. In distributing $2,200 worth of Procter & Gamble prizes this week, in the 17th annual soap-sculpture competition, the jury-which included Paul Manship and William Zorach-had to winnow 4,500 entries...
Once again Sophomores have a chance to become adept at advertising, sales manship and at business promotion, as the Crimson opens its doors to competitors for the business board next Tuesday...
...Last spring a new Sculptors' Guild took over a vacant lot in Manhattan. made news with a big outdoor exhibition (TIME, April 25). Last week the Brooklyn Museum's luminous galleries held a more impressive show by the same Guild, whose membership includes the illustrious names of Manship, Zorach and Sterne, besides some 50 other Eastern artists...
Last week a letter appeared in the New York Post from Paul Manship, who is designing the most prominent sculpture at the Fair, recalling that "even Chicago counterbalanced its fan dancer with a world-famous art exhibit" (at the Art Institute, a mile away from the fair grounds), and boldly asking his clients: "Are exhibitions at the Fair to be limited to products that carry a price tag? ... Is this to be a World's Fair worthy of New York, or another glorified Coney Island...
...made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists were far from mollified, Mr. Whalen's plans for correlating art exhibitions on Manhattan Island were described as applesauce, and the artists voted to call on Mayor LaGuardia for help in getting an independent building...