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Albert Johnson has designed a simple studio set with two revolving sections which seemed fairly unimaginative although it allowed the quick scene changes the production required. A large plaster statue by some unidentified artist appeared suitably obnoxious...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Fancy Meeting you Again | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...Matthew Warren, religion and education have always been one. "Education," says he, "is organic to life, and not just pasted on life like a shin plaster." As far as he is concerned, there will be no shin plasters at St. Paul's. "A church school should be more than a school. I should like my contribution to be in the field of being a good pastor for the boys, teaching them to come to grips with their lives on the highest possible level. But I am not going to St. Paul's with any high-flown theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Rector for St. Paul's | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...saved my dough! ... I bought that old corner property during the real estate depression . . . for $3,600 . . . There's a nice little plaster-a mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tracy Detected? | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Woodman's ten water-colors on crumpled, water-soaked paper are among other experiments. The textural effects are novel but the painting is modiocre. His ideas seem better adapted to the medium of clay and plaster because his abstract forms demand depth, which he has failed to give them on paper. His large oil of a girl is technically competent and clearly expressed. I like the same girl in a green water-color much better; her mood is catching...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Harvard Art Association | 11/20/1951 | See Source »

...tense and over-charged scrutiny of the mural? Once they know it is a cow, they can sit there and champ their boiled scrod and ensilage in peace. I really do not know that they could ask for anything better, unless it would be to eat underneath a plaster bust of Charles Evans Hughes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Bull This | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

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