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...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla, able draughtsman and muralist, to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S. Artist Quintanilla will have 40 to 50 pupils, who will help him paint, on wet plaster in the Liberal Arts Building Auditorium, a real fresco, possibly of Don Quixote in a modern setting...
...Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when Sid Grauman, still unsatisfied, sneaked up from behind and bore down (see cut). Bedaubed & bewildered, Barrymore cursed, was still digging concrete from...
...Wadsworth. During his 41 years as coroner's physician. Dr. Wadsworth, known to reporters as "Waddie," has examined 10,094 bodies. He has a tremendous assortment of cartridges (1,500 of 40 different makes), 360,000 filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office are a homemade rifle range, charts spattered with red ink to mark the splash of blood, hundreds of machines to weigh, measure, test and sight, all made by Waddie out of odds & ends from...
...most popular educational shows at the New York World's Fair is the Medicine & Public Health exhibit. In the shadowy Hall of Man stand countless glorifications of the human body-a swaying four-foot ear, a talking skeleton, a mechanical biceps, a huge plaster brain studded with push buttons. Through the Hall echoes the muffled beat of an invisible, mechanical heart...
Quoting Dr. William Heneage Ogilvie of London, especially enthusiastic about plaster, the Lancet summed up: "Once a wounded man has undergone efficient surgical treatment and has been put in plaster, he is safe-he may be blown out of an ambulance, derailed in a train, crashed in an aeroplane or torpedoed at sea, he may be left for weeks in a cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent...