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Tenor Beniamino Gigli, in a blue smock, stood in "Magic City"-a metropolis erected in gold and crimson papier-mache in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Caroling snatches of famous arias to attract the pennies of the crowd, he sold leather novelties for charity...
Therefore, on the morning of the race, some Oxford undergraduates visited the Cambridge headquarters with a huge papier-mache crab, whose eight legs were shrouded in the billowy breeches that Oxford men consider fashionable. Wansborough laughed. He was confident...
...Lost World. The brontosaurus is usually a static creature. Propped on rods and wire, he observes the world with a stolid papier-maché curiosity from the floor of some museum. He is observed with awe and agitation by the restless seekers after cultural novelties. Now at last has the brontosaurus come to life. He is abroad in his native state, awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Still pretending that the West is a place where weaklings are shot on sight, but getting good laughs for all its papier maché plot...
...Picasso. He represents a movement which has as yet scarcely penetrated the American consciousness, but is the dominating mode in Continental Art today. Archipenko will never have a great popular following, but he has made his reputation with artists. He experiments with bizarre media for sculpture ? glass, wood, papier-mache and paint, polished sheet-iron reflecting surrounding men and things. He uses symbolism, hieroglyphics, simplification, expresses cerebral intangibilities, "models the atmosphere" by leaving holes in matter...