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Benin bronzes were made with the very difficult "lost wax process", and are thought to be some of the world's most expert examples of this art. Among the most famous of these works shown are a pair of leopards from the royal palace, a life-sized rooster covered with feathers in a foliage design, and numerous plaques with figures of warriors, priests, nobles, and their attendants...
Died. Emile Pathe, pioneer French cinemagnate and phonograph manufacturer; in Pau. Originally a tobacconist, he founded in 1896, with his brother Charles and two other Frenchmen, Pathe Freres (the crowing rooster), which produced early newsreels, Pearl White's The Perils of Pauline...
...were copies of Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhymes, Lewis Carroll's Jabber-wacky. This week's exhibition did not disdain the art of the frankly insane. There was a panel of wild designs by a crazed French banknote engraver, a drawing of something like a perverted rooster from the inspired brush of an ecstatic Czech...
...call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that the pictures had been obtained in "The Wild Forests of Brazil." Elsewhere in the issue were text and pictures showing how "the famous German Professor Julius Lirpa" had perfected a method for extracting gold from the scales of fish...
...removed from the political whirlgig that had red-headed Governor Chandler cruising the streets for votes in a sound truck with a red-combed rooster on the radiator, is Professor Lloyd Arnold of the University of Illinois, in a state neighbor to Kentucky. With a colleague, Dr. J. A. Vauchulis, in the division of bacteriology, department of health, Dr. Arnold has perfected a new skin disinfectant for surgical use. The new solution is much cheaper than any disinfectant known today and more efficient than any other. Eminent in medicine, Dr. Arnold received his M.A. at Texas Christian...