Word: papier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing its jaws, one to shoot steam from its mouth, one to shout its music through a megaphone backstage, an assistant conductor watching for the conductor's beat through a peephole, a prompter speaking the dragon's words from the score. It is still only a papier-mache dragon...
...senses-of a hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
...payroll will be more than $85,000,000, to be shared by the many studio executives in Hollywood's nepotistic structure, and those of the 28,000 cinemartisans who have managed to survive recent retrenchment. The remainder will largely go for the papier-mache, froufrou, sundries that give Hollywood its supercolossal gloss...
Founded by John Cain, a onetime policeman, the business expired under his son, quiet, broken-nosed, gold-toothed Patrick Joseph ("Patsy"; Cain. At the height of its run, Cain's was five floors deep in trellises and pillars, spangles and swords, chariot wheels from Ben Hur, a papier-mache elephant from Face the Music, highfalutin gear from Shakespeare revivals, tinsel & gilt from Follies, Scandals, Gaieties. On one single night in 1905 John Cain moved eight shows (94 loads, 654 pieces). His son was always on hand for closings, and the sight of him in the audience required quarts...
When most of his 200 reindeer shed their antlers aboard ship en route to Seattle, he equipped them, with papier-mâché antlers. Later, as head of the Philadelphia agency of Union Central Life Insurance Co., he raised his office in two years' time (1935-36) from 24th to second place among the company's 80 agencies...