Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered as a suitable vehicle for its child stars. At any rate, it is not a first class production, mostly because the theme has been treated more than once. Essentially it is rich boy versus poor boys, but give the rich boy an English accent and an English father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy are the pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above his older colleagues, where acting is required. In places the reform story...
...Architect Kahn, a native New Yorker who studied at Columbia and won a Prix Labarre while at the Paris Beaux-Arts, stepped boldly into the Institute chairmanship in 1933. Brisk, mustached and famed for his spaghetti suppers, he has never designed an opera house but his Squibb Building and many another chaste Manhattan skyscraper are nationally known. As a practical result, Beaux-Arts students have lately been getting assignments for esquisses and projects of automobile factories instead of orangeries. When they finish them in six weeks and ship them to New York, they are returned with crisp comments by such...
...Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry, was down to 15 pence when he enlisted under the name of Ross. At night in the barracks he wrote the notes that make up The Mint, faithfully copying his companions' "indescribably profane and obscene conversation.'' Somewhat mysteriously Dr. Canby likens the result...
...great British writers whose reputation has not bloomed abroad as well as at home is William Morris, Pre-Raphaelite, craftsman, for whom the Morris chair was named, child prodigy (he read the Waverly novels at the age of 4), interior decorator, architect, wealthy Socialist, amazingly prolific poet and creator of stained glass windows. Morris was the leading figure among British Socialists when George Bernard Shaw, 22 years younger, first met him. Shaw, author of five unpublished novels, principally known as a speaker in seething, rapidly-shifting London radical circles, was editing a small magazine at that time. To fill...
Died. Ernest Robert Graham, 68, famed, prolific Chicago architect; of high blood pressure brought on by overwork; in Chicago. Schooled by the late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...