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Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 1948

Sydney Morning Herald 31 January 1940

Sydney Morning Herald 5 October 1942

Argus 15 May 1924

Argus 11 July 1938

Argus 3 February 1941

Sun-Herald 31 January 1954

Sun-Herald 20 March 1954

Sun-Herald 4 April 1954

Sun-Herald 2 May 1954

Argus 24 May 1944

Courier-Mail 25 November 1933

I was looking at film clips of Anna May Wong on YouTube. She was one of the actors featured in Hollywood Party (1937), a short film of a garden party with a Chinese theme, held to raise funds for the Kuomintang. I was surprised to see the US comedian Charley Chase arrive at the party driving a mock Dymaxion car. I didn’t realize that Buckminister Fuller’s invention had seeped into popular culture to that extent by 1937.