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...stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury of farmers and townspeople retired to the star's dressing room, deliberated for not quite two hours. From his desk which was framed by papier-mâché trees, the judge heard the verdict read: murder in the first degree. He sentenced West Virginia's "Bluebeard" to hang Friday, March 18, 1932. Unmoved, little Murderer Powers was led away on his chain, the court room's footlights extinguished...
Marching workers carried papier-mache figures of "Japanese Imperialists" strangling "Chinese Comrades." In a military order of the day, Klim Voroshilov declared: "On this 14th anniversary of the Revolution we are ready to defend our-selves." To cheering throngs in the Red Square he roared: "Our workers and peasants have proved by their strenuous labor that they can win victory in war as in the peaceful battles of industrialization!" Meanwhile the famed Third International, Moscow's bureau of world propaganda, clarioned: "Japan's war against the working masses of China is a war against us and a step toward...
...followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made-to-order glass eyes. After a little further grooming Ador Tipp Topp stood last week as big and alert as ever he looked at a kennel show...
...lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth. The dinosaur is characteristic of Producer Carroll : in the current Follies, Producer Ziegfeld has girls carried by mere elephants...
...were introduced to the U. S. that any attempt to revive the Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking...