Word: papiermache
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Karl May connoisseurs (more often adults than children) are willing to endure anything for the performances, which manage to achieve innocent, papiermaché grandeur with a cast of 130 and a dozen horses. The German dialogue is speckled with Texan ("Well, greenhorn"), and the overture invariably includes such incongruous Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike. Even the summer rainstorms cannot stop the show. Said one fan, donning his slicker: "In the Old West they didn't stop struggling just because it rained...
...soon as the plane arrived with the mats of TIME'S August 16 issue [mats are papiermaché molds of type and illustrations] I carried the package down to the largest print shop and with due ceremony informed the director of the honor that was about to befall him: permission to print the first issue of TIME'S first Asiatic edition...
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