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...Three years later he became professor of medical history there. The next year he went to Leipzig, remained there until Johns Hopkins got him. He has travelled over most of the world with a hip-pocket camera. He develops his pictures in his bathroom. But his lectures are prepared to appeal to the ear. Says he: "Too many lectures read well in print and prove disappointing when read from a platform...
When Charlotte Corday stormed into Jean Paul Marat's bathroom in 1793, he was in his high, churnlike tub and she stabbed him to the heart. When Siamese soldiers and sailors stormed last week into King Prajadhipok's Bangkok bathroom (see p. 18), made by Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., the big U. S. bathtub was empty...
...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 that their "glorification of the unmentionable" had evolved a "new conception" of the bathroom. The New Bathroom is designed 1) to dress in; 2) to keep clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto...
...plain" bathroom fixture is hard to get. The three leading manufacturers (Standard Sanitary, Crane, Kohler) now create in five main art periods: i) the heavy "masculine" Renaissance; 2) the light "feminine" periods such as 18th Century, Empire, Directoire; 3) the neoclassic; 4) the Colonial; 5) the modernistic. Standard Sanitary emphasizes the neoclassic; Crane the Renaissance; Kohler the "Metropolitan," a modernistic style which, according to an exposition salesman, "means as much as Standard's neo-classic." But all three master plumbers plumb in all periods...
Little known outside their profession are the master creators of bathroom fixtures. Best known is Standard's George Sakier, a tall, dark, sardonic bachelor with long tapering hands, who was educated to be a mechanical engineer. He creates five new model bathrooms every six months for private exhibition to architects, decorators, plumbers. He designs Fostoria glassware too, invented the square-bottomed glass. He designed King Prajad-hipok's empty neoclassic bathtub...