Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...
...Fashion Group last year. "Men are already ugly enough in them without having women wear them." But Mme Schiaparelli gave women practically everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of china, gadgets designed from harness. One of her best textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place of it, including metal coat fasteners in the shape of dollar signs...
...Alfa-Romeo and scorched southward deep into the malarial marshes of the Pontine. A motorcade of 200 cars pursued him bearing officials and newshawks most of whom wrote that night "Today I rode with Mussolini." Suddenly Il Duce's car slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting seven children, had neatly stacked good golden wheat in the front yard. A flag flapped atop...
Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art proudly put on exhibition its latest acquisition?a huge steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers...
Bedded in a Manhattan hospital with a broken ankle in a plaster cast, Primo Carnera watched movies of the fight which lost him the heavyweight championship of the world to Max Baer. Cried Ex-Champion Carnera: "Look at me go down ... I fall. I fall again. Look at Baer grin, the big smart Alec." Then he wept...