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...turned his hand at many a trick besides advertising. At one time he ran a factory for making papier maché, artificial flowers, etc., etc. He once organized 75 musical laborers into the "Royal Band of Rome to H. M. Victor Emanuel III," and directed them through a long engagement in a Harlem beer garden. Later he furnished the "Naval Reserve Band of Italy" to Luna Park. Of this band, 35 members could play. The other 40 were drilled to puff convincingly at plugged-up instruments...
...11th anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre (when over 300 Indian men and women were shot down by British troops) half a million natives gathered on the beach near Bombay to scoop up water, extract forbidden salt by evaporation. Towards evening a huge, blood-red papier-mache monster, symbolizing the salt tax, was dumped into the ocean...
...business is well demonstrated by this story of a foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady's momentary struggle between her husband's coldness...
...into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that...
...Significance. Author Lewis's Villon is not wax, nor is his fifteenth century Paris papier mache. Himself a man of energy, contemptuous of hot-house estheticism (which he flays in his Dedication and Preface, not the least stimulating portions of the book), he presents a three-dimensional, unsentimental Villon, a sensual idler and criminal, weak, mercurial, but possessed of four stable virtues-faith, patriotism, filial love, gratitude. Somewhere this man's tortured, gusty spirit was luminous with great poetry...