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[MICROCALLIGRAPHY]. BLYSTONE, Ernest (d. 1963). Drawing on a Grain of Rice. Chicago, 1933. A grain of white rice decorated by “Bly” The Rice Writer at the Century of Progress Chicago World’s Fair. The grain is embellished in black ink with a drawing of a lion and a woman riding in an automobile with the tiny caption below reading, “See / Marjie Kemp & Riding Lions.” Affixed to the center of a printed card advertising the Ripley’s Odditorium at the Fair.
Marjorie Kemp drove a racecar with sidecar on the wall of death in the “Lion Motordrome.” What made her act unusual was the passenger in the sidecar: a full-grown male lion named Sultan.