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...frighten evil spirits away from their homes and villages on festival days, Mexicans put on the faces of nightmare bulls. Chinese dragons, purple monkeys, Byzantine kings, Greek satyrs, cranberry-colored Satans and a host of nameless beings as varied as they are scary. Small papier-mache masks for children sell for only a few cents in every market place; more elaborate examples, carved from wood or gourd, are used in ceremonial dances. Next week, during the festival of Corpus Christi. such dances will be held all over Mexico...
...spare time Waugh made souvenir boxes of sea shells, a whalebone chandelier, a papier-maché castle for his children-and abstract paintings. He never exhibited the abstractions, for fear of shocking his devoted customers...
...Calm. Homer got 6,000 electric bulbs, seven new electric cables, and a public-address system and installed them on the lawn in front of his house, which is about the biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché camels, 24 sheep, nine shepherds, one cow, and the figures of the Three Wise Men and Mary and the Infant Jesus. He mounted the Star of Bethlehem on a 50-ft. steel mast and built a manger. Then he turned on the lights, and the public-address system put out Christmas carols...
Please Applaud. In Tokyo's shiny new sports center, a crowd of 10,000 thronged to join the hallelujah chorus. Before a papier-mãché globe surmounted by doves, black-robed Shinto priests in formal vestments, shaved Buddhists in red, blue and saffron robes, turbaned Moslems and black-clad Japanese Episcopal ministers stood rigidly in silent prayer for peace...
...1890s the Moulin Rouge was the gayest dance hall in Paris. It had little Tunisian donkeys which bore cancan girls on their backs, an immense papier-mâché elephant which hid a troupe of dancers and an entire orchestra in its belly. It also had rough & ready Louise Weber (known for her lusty appetites as La Goulue-the glutton), who nightly exposed her shapely limbs and 60 yards of lace lingerie in hectic kicks and splits. To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster...