Strippers v. Drapers

Everything was ready for the opening of Spain's "First International Open-Air Exhibit of Sculpture" in Madrid's Retire Park. The organizers of the show, led by Art Critic Sefiora Juana de Mordo, had invited and received entries from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. But as diplomats and officials gathered in striped pants and top hats for the formal inauguration, they noted a strange sight: all the nude statues had been primly covered with white sheets.

Hastily, the show's organizers snatched off the drapery; quick as a wink, students from a nearby seminary for student priests rushed out and re-covered the offending desnudos. The organizers went back into action; for several minutes it was a knockdown affair between strippers and drapers. In time's nick, before the Minister of Education showed up, the strippers won, and the dignitaries started off to inspect the sculpture. No sooner had they passed than the students returned, so that on the walk back, all that the visitors could see were ghostly, sheeted shapes.

Senora de Mordo, enraged to tears, screamed at the students: "You savages! Savages! You are a disgrace!" Replied a teen-age seminarian:'You are the savage, and we are merely evangelizing you." A few days later, the exhibit was closed by government order;" the works of art were recrated and shipped back to where they came from. Last week, the show's organizers sadly announced that there would be no "Second International Open-Air Exhibit of Sculpture" next year.

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