Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welter of gardenias and orchids, amid the sheen of many emeralds, in an atmosphere fragrant with excellent things to drink, a new art gallery blossomed last week on Manhattan's artiest street, East 57th, with an opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell...
...Dartmouth he helped to found The Five Arts (TIME, May 19). Last week young Chrysler gave the Press careful first facts about his new Cheshire House, Inc.,*publishers of fine books in $10 bindings. Cheshire House will not operate for profit. Once a month, from its offices on the 57th floor of Chrysler's father's Manhattan skyscraper (his father's office is on the 72nd floor), it will issue a newly splendrous classic, later perhaps a few unquestionable contemporaries. Its organization consists of best obtainable craftsmen, a managerial staff of five, a board of directors...
...worth $200 per sq. ft., Broadway at 42nd $400, 42nd and Fifth Ave. $500. The land where the Chrysler Building stands is set at $250, while across Lexington Ave. the Hotel Commodore's real estate is estimated to be worth $300. The shopping district at Fifth Ave. and 57th St. commands $350, the less fashionable region of Fifth Ave. at 34th, $200 on the west side, a little more on the east...