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...Significance. This novel has long needed a writer. In Ramon Guthrie it found one of more than ordinary skill. His aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...
...matter what may be the evasions and silences of party platforms, no candidate for high office will be permitted to shelter himself behind the papier-māché breastwork of law enforcement. He will have to stand up and declare whether he is for the Federal Union established by the Constitution or against it; whether he is for the forbidden and abhorrent 18th Amendment, which has been forced into the Constitution, or against...
...postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier maché matrix made by his doctor, Antommarchi; innumerable letters, prints, cartoons, snuff boxes, medals, etc. Most of the exhibited items were from the Vignali collection, purchased in Europe three years ago by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia...
...that the corpses of their rare animals should come to the Peabody Museum. Last week the Museum announced that Old Bill's hide was in Manhattan being tanned, that his skeleton was in New Haven. Two Peabody exhibits will be made of Old Bill, the skeleton and a papier mache rhinoceros wearing Old Bill's hide. They will be placed beside Old Bill's onetime companion of circus days, Fatima, 2,000-pound mare hippopotamus...
...Dramatic Club has got to rehearse somewhere else, and decide its location very quickly. It has been suggested that the choice fall upon Parke Snow's vacant store on Massachusetts Avenue, but at present just where the Dramatic Club will move its papier-mache brick walls and scenic archways, and its Three Oranges is a secret...