Texas Mud

How a Lincoln, Nebraska Gymnasium Made a Book About the American Stage

The product was sold in powder form. Mixed with water, it produced a thick, reddish-brown paste. It was applied by mothers with kitchen sponges to the skin of their children in the dressing rooms and hallways of the Kimball Recital Hall complex at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where in the mid-1970s a group of grade school kids from Brownell Eleme…