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...Geology at the University of Washington. Gem of the Fuller collection and chief treasure of the new museum in a consultation room brought intact from the old Peiping Palace of Henry Pu Yi. Here are tomb jades and T'ang idols, furniture, an Emperor's throne, porcelain and statuary - possibly the finest private collection of oriental art in the U. S. Away from the Manchu driblets, the rest of the Seattle Art Institute's collection drops sharply in value. With little money to spend for paintings, Dr. Fuller showed his good sense by filling his galleries...
...midst of a number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when...
...National Alliance of Art & Industry. No awards were ever more welcome; most of the seven prize-winners bitterly needed the money. The $150 Robert C. Ogden prize for the "most outstanding" work went to Sargent Claude Johnson of Berkeley, Calif, for two neo-Mexican colored drawings and a porcelain figure of a praying child with a fine Persian green glaze. Artist Johnson is an old hand at Harmon honors, has won two others...
...Except for U. S. and European soldiers who looted it during the Boxer Rebellion, not 20 white men in the world had set foot in that forbidden preserve until the fall of the Empire in 1911. Until 1911, it contained the greatest assemblage of treasure: gold, jade, precious stone, porcelain, ancient paintings, carvings, that the world has seen since the fall of the Mogul Empire in India...
...operating room is silent except for the clink of instruments on the porcelain-topped table and the voice of the surgeon, muffled through a gauze mouth bandage, calling sharply for instruments. A bronchoscope, a long mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever...