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...finding tenants. Passersby thought they saw signs of economizing in the dimming of the building's lobby lights at night and the failure of searchlights to play on the 1,046-ft. pinnacle as advertised. Another seeming portent was a lien on the building filed by Architect William Van Alen to collect $725,000 of the $865,000 he claimed was due him. Most persistent and grave of all rumors was the story that Mr. Chrysler no longer held control of Chrysler Building Corp. (not connected with Chrysler Corp.). This gravest report Mr. Chrysler's representatives stoutly denied. They pointed...
Most modern and rubiginous is the lobby of the Chrysler Building. Chaste in black and white marble is the first floor of the Bank of Manhattan Building. The Chrysler architect is William Van Alen, the builder Fred T. Ley. Architects of the Bank of Manhattan were H. Craig Severance and Yasuo Matsui, the builder Thompson-Starrett...
...Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When he died, at 60, he left a united France and a dynasty that lasted for 300 years...
...more than, ever a synthesis of many elements - pure design, clients' specifications, construction engineering, interior decorating, landscape architecture, plumbing - much of the space was devoted to the Allied Arts. The architectural gamut ran through garages, houses, churches, public buildings, reached a skyward climax in Manhattan Architect William Van Alen's plans for the new Chrysler Building, to be world's highest (68 stories), now under construction in midtown Manhattan. Everywhere apparent was the tendency toward simplification of form, and the invention of new forms rather than reliance on archaeology. Colorists now apply a vivid spectrum to polychrome...
Married. Prince Charles Philippe, Due de Nemours, 23, only son of the Due and Duchesse de Vendome et d'Alençon, nephew of King Albert of Belgium and cousin of Edward, Prince of Wales; to Miss Marguerite ("Peggy") Watson of Washington, D. C., sometime fiancée of Angier B. Duke and the late Reginald Vanderbilt; in London...