Word: papier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constructed of papier-mache for he Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary, the figure is a copy of the Daniel Chester French statue and of approximately the same dimensions. After the colonial celebration it was given to the University and now collects dust on the west balcony of Memorial Hall...
...architect after graft and mismanagement had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was secretly executed in papier-mache by a political contractor...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
...Lohengrin opened the 15th season of opera in the Cincinnati Zoo, a six-week schedule assured this year by anonymous donations. As usual, the audience tittered at unexpected animal sounds-a loon calling as Lohengrin arrived on the stage with his papier-mache swan; a lion roaring just as King Henry dropped his chin for a deep bass note...
...sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens...