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Show Sculptor Calder at Work on Model For Great Court of the Sun and Stars at the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific International Exposition. ( ' 'B ' '"' Copyright, 1913, by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. A STIRLING CALDER, the brilliant American sculptor, who Is actinj I chief of sculpture at the Panama -Pacific International Exposition, hai i 0 personally designed and modeled many of the superb pieces of statu, j ary that will be used to adorn the vast courts and Exposition eround The photograph above shows Mr. Calder at work upon a hovering figure sym I bolica! of a star, which, when enlarged, will be used to decorate the great Cour ' of the Sun and Stars. There will be 110 of these figures, each fourteen feet li j height and crowning a great colonnade that will encircle the Court of the Sui and Stars At night massed batteries of searchlights placed upon the roofs o I the exhibit palaces will fall upon the star-like headdress of the figures, ii ! which will be set quivering prisms reflecting all the colors of the rainbow. Th, I indescribable beauty of these colored shafts of light will produce one of thi most fascinating effects in the great world's Exposition In San Francisco. |