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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...
...Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson...
...teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared profusely bandaged. A little girl of nine, supposed to have had her arm blown off by an air bomb, happily displayed a red-daubed papier-mache stump...