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An interview with American painter William Traher is presented. He discusses his special training in painting a diorama background. He details his approach in the effective use of rollers, sponges and paint spray guns in his murals. He also share some of the details about the layer-on-layer painting technique.

A biography of miniature animal sculptor Louis Paul Jonas is presented. Born in 1894 in Budapest, Hungary, he started studying and practicing sculpture at age 12. He moved to the U.S. as a teenager to help in the taxidermy store of his brothers in Denver, Colorado. Among the people he counted as one of the greatest influences on his art was naturalist and sculptor Carl Akeley, who hired him as an apprentice. Many of Jonas' miniature animal sculptures can be found in private patrons' collections and dioramas and in natural history museums worldwide.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of making dioramas during his fine arts career.

The article reports that advertising executive of New York, will be placing dioramas, on several spots on the walls, while the displays will be built by Diorama Corp. of America.

The article presents a photograph featuring a diorama of the city of Chicago, Illinois, built under the direction of former U.S. Army engineer M. O. Kasson.

This section offers news briefs in the U.S. as of October 8, 1951. Possum Corner Plantation gamekeeper Willie Williams has decided to return to his game preserve in South Carolina after positing for a diorama of a Southern pine forest at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York City. A black tiara hat and choker for Manhattanites and a matched leash and collar for her dog are being offered at Saks Fifth Avenue. The state of Connecticut has banned the bug shield on automobiles.