MORE DAYLIGHT TERRORS
SHOW-WINDOW FREAKS.
We are just becoming inured to tho coloured electric pictures which flash about London at night—the dancing lady the swaying parrot, and other restless advertisements. Now .we are to .have electrical advertisements by day too m another form—cunningly' fashioned, little figures with limbs, eyelids, and lips that move, and chests that h&vo up and down in a natural breathing movement, says an English paper. One of these models already inhabits a window in the Strand.' She is a clerk sitting at a table with a pen in her hand. She pretends to dip this in tho ink-pot and to write. Occasionally she tries to remember a word, and she'puts her hand up to her forehead while her eyes roll and her eyelids blink nervously. A lettered advertisement flashes out the name of a famous fountain pen. She turns her head, pretends to write tho name, and the electrically worked movement begins all over again. There is another gay little figure in a Holborn window which attracts great crowds every day. He is dressed in a morning suit with red buttons, lace cravat, and a top-hat. .Ho gesticulates effectively, opens his eyes, raises his eyebrows, and smiles in a most realistic fashion as he points to the advertisement' of which he is in charge. The clever thing about these models ia the natural movement of the eyelids and of the iipa, which seem to be of some flex-
ible material, although they look like the composition of which the face is made.
There are several other models made. One represents Falstaff drinking, and he can keep on for an indefinite time pouring liquid out of a flagon into a cup, drinking it, and smacking- his Jips with enjoyment. By an ingenious arrangement the ;liquid in the mug runs back to the flagon as he seems to drink it. On one side of him a lady turns about and admires herself in a mirror, and on another stand a cook with a saucepan in one hand and a ladle in another appears to be giving a cookery demonstration.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 10
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351MORE DAYLIGHT TERRORS Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 10
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