Phidias used Pentelic marble, but modern sculptors have a substance still whiter (and easier) to carve: Ivory Soap. In distributing $2,200 worth of Procter & Gamble prizes this week, in the 17th annual soap-sculpture competition, the jurywhich included Paul Manship and William Zorachhad to winnow 4,500 entries.
Top winner for 1941 Ivory Soap Sculpture was Edward Anthony, 25, a talkative
Detroit art teacher, who has won ten awards in the last eleven contests. Teacher Anthony is a sure-enough sculptor who has studied under Carl Milles, works not only in soap but in wood, bronze,...
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