Word: papier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew across the Great Arabian Desert and re ported the discovery of what he thought was the legendary city of Sheba. with 20 towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes en Papier} written when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past...
...kitchen there rose a great barking & scratching. In the package was a luscious dog dinner - fresh beef of lamb, cleaned of fat & gristle, cubed for bolting, soaked in a broth of vegetable vitamin juices, garnished with shredded lettuce or cabbage wrapped in waxed paper and served up on a papier mache platter. Son of a socialite Washington insurance broker, Leroy Goff Jr. is 30, small, light-haired, blue-eyed, fresh-cheeked, amiable, handsome. At Princeton (Class of 1926) he had the peculiar distinction of being both a Triangle Club chorus girl and a varsity letterman in lacrosse. After college...
...almost beyond recognition. The Muny Rip was a radio entertainer who took too much bootleg gin and dreamed he was the sleepy Washington Irving hero. He sang one piece called ''My Hudson River Home" which was strangely like "Ol' Man River," Red Coats traveled through the papier-mâché Catskills in a rattly old Ford, spent their evenings listening to a portable radio. Audiences seemed to relish the crass 1933 interpolations but the scene
...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
...Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled to ze breem! Rewolt!'' There is a nudist sketch; a scene in Cinemactress "Margreta Garbitch's" Hollywood training quarters; a song called "Love...