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...Miss Nancy Vanuxem, pretty debutante daughter of Philadelphia City Councilman James Vanuxem, swathed herself in cheesecloth draperies and stepped up on a model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins...
Hardy coal-miners of Gillespie, Ill. paid 25? apiece last Sunday to enter the local cinemansion, behold a theatrical enterprise presented under church auspices. It was written and directed by a priest, but if the miners expected a Biblical drama with cheesecloth and false whiskers, they were disappointed. On the Gillespie stage fists flew, guns roared, young lovers embraced, a mortgage was foreclosed, thugs and drunks swore, strikers rioted, a bomb went off and at one point the whole thing seemed about to go up in smoke & flame. The play: Storm-Tossed. Its author: Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord...
...occupancy at the change of administration was the nearby Department of Agriculture Building. It was equipped with the sort of mural that Congressional committees had been approving for Federal buildings since the British burned the U. S. Capitol: A great rectangle showing a number of buxom ladies swathed in cheesecloth, standing about a wheatfield (TIME, April 2, 1934). Its painter was Gilbert White, a long-haired U. S. expatriate. Young New Dealers did not like that picture. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tried hard to have it removed, found that he could not, finally attached to the bottom a small plate...
...supplement, TIME presents a cross-section of the murals, public & private, now being erected in this country. Their only common denominator is the desire to say something definite about the U. S., to get away from vapid allegory and Artist Gilbert White's ladies in cheesecloth...
...recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen. With the idea of trying to do the same with the wounded butcher boy, the surgeons sopped wads of cheesecloth into the bloody hollow of his chest, wrung them out in a glass pitcher. Thus they quickly recovered almost a quart of blood...