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Chong Weng-Ho

Chong Weng-Ho reviews ‘Art Deco: 1910–1939’ edited Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, and Ghislaine Wood

August 2003, no. 253 01 August 2003
A thirty-ish Peter O’Toole becoming an aged schoolmaster with powdered apple cheeks. I was a child when I saw the remake of Goodbye Mr Chips in 1970, but even then I could see that wrinkly make-up will never wash. More fascinating than the film was watching it in Walter Burley Griffin’s Capitol Theatre in Melbourne. The ceiling’s cunningly layered pleats of multi-faceted fittings were a mill ... (read more)