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Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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Here the sculptor has taken the license of representing men with the
maidens, and instead of baskets has used vases.

This idea of the festival is strongly accented at night when you are
transported to old Greek and Roman days.

Follow after this procession and you will notice that Paul Manship's
"Joy of Living," or "Motion," as it is also called, has entered. The
joyous girls in perfect abandon are coming to join the happy throng.
They bring their offerings in the shape of great wild-rose festoons,
well suited to the "Wild Roses" who carry them.

Near by is Paul Manship's "Music," adding the song, and the music of the
lyre.

As a last touch you will find the nations of the Occident and the
nations of the Orient marching into this Court of the Universe to take
part in the festival in celebration of one of the greatest events of
history - the opening of the Panama Canal.

At night comes the illumination, as a climax to the festival, and
gradually the lights die down and all is still - just for a few hours
only, for day will dawn, for is not the Rising Sun ever with us - and
another day of festivity will come, and yet more at this greatest
festival that the world has ever known.



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