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Artists had been speaking to the board for 40 years. In the late 1890s, when John Carrere and Thomas Hastings designed the big building at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone...
...spring of 1912 an English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duchess' 42nd birthday off the Riviera aboard the yacht Frixos, lent them for the occasion by their friend "Nicky" Zographos, head of the Greek gambling syndicate in Monte Carlo, day after moving into their newly redecorated Chateau de la Cröe. Four days later they celebrated the Duke's 44th birthday at home...
Escape This Night (by Robert Steiner & Leona Heyert; produced by Robinson Smith) will be remembered, if at all, as "the mystery story laid in the 42nd Street Public Library." For out of a welter of irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff...
...Proudly We Hail" is a satire on Cafe Society with international implications involving Mussolini, Hitler, and Roosevelt and their respective countries, and the small nation of Cafeteria, bounded by Central Park East and 42nd street. Cafeteria is a pawn in the power politics of the three dictators, and these complications form the plot...