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...natural partner, the stretch, animate the entire body. This is the 'stylized breath.'" Once he explained: "We are a band groping toward intuitive communication. . . . When you conceive of a community, all members of which are swayed by kindred emotions of awe and wonder, expressing themselves through plastic bodies moving rhythmically, the picture is staggering...
Captain H. L. D. Kirkham, Navy plastic surgeon, thought it over. When a man's eyes, ears or mouth are burned shut, when his nose or jaw is shot away, plastic surgery can usually restore the face. But the process sometimes takes seven or eight operations, weeks or months apart. Meanwhile the disfigured men usually prefer to stay out of sight in darkened wards. Jack Dawn's "inlays," however, could make many men appear normal between operations. Last week, under Kirkham's eye, a department of prosthesis* was being organized at the hospital. Besides designing new faces...
...Universal. He began making whole false faces to suit parts. One of his first was a stiff, heavy irritating mask he wore in the role of an ape in 1925. In 1935, after nine years of research while doing makeups for M.G.M., he found what he wanted- a synthetic plastic good for making mobile, lifelike masks. It is of secret composition (the process is patented, but he gives it to the Navy free) which he calls vinylite resin mixed with alcohol. Its first big trial was in Chinese faces for The Good Earth...
...Dawn Method. First step in making a Dawn inlay for a disfigured man is to make a life mask of his face with the missing parts added. Then the extra bit is removed and duplicated in Dawn's plastic. To stick the inlay on, the man wets the inside with alcohol. This dissolves the plastic a little, and the inlay clings perfectly when pressed into place. Next the inlay is touched up with make-up to match the skin...
...soft plastic, Plioflex, which is a first-rate substitute for rubber-raincoats, shoe heels, gaskets, wire insulation...