Word: porcelain
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Died, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, 82, French painter, Sevres porcelain art director; of old age; in Paris. He conceived the Wartime chore for aged & infirm French painters of painting the famed patriotic cyclorama, Pantheon...
Spiteful gossip writers for Berlin Socialist dailies called the wedding presents "cheap." They also seemed annoyed because President von Hindenburg had contributed to the general atmosphere of simplicity by sending as his wedding gift a pair of white porcelain candlesticks with a white fruit bowl to match...
Chief comedienne is dry-voiced Helen Broderick. who variously impersonates a streetwalker, an inmate of a maternity ward, a deceiving wife. Harriet Hoctor. wanly unreal as a porcelain figure, does her old raven dance and a couple of others. Offsetting this wholesome influence is an abandoned fellow named Milton Berle (to rhyme with "peril") whom Producer Carroll has chosen for his chief male funster...
...only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master Plumbers' annual exposition was definitely art-conscious. The Master Plumbers claimed...
...cuckoldry, is expected to arrive soon. Just ahead of him arrives the great Otto Zeigen, the Rumanian millionaire (Mr. Perkins). That gives the amorists their chance to trick the husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first. Zeigen, it turns out, is a man of frugal habits. He is ready for an onion sandwich and bed. The kitchen maid does not think Actor Hull "very interesting." However, next morning, Zeigen gets and willingly takes the spousal wrath...