Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer-brother Arthur, conceived General Houses, Inc. After it opens its Chicago World's Fair exhibit June 1, General Houses expects to offer a five-room-&-bath dwelling, similar to the Ruth Page model, for less than $4,000. First dealer picked was in Oak Park...
...steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing up to $7,200. Architect is lean, towering Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. of the New York firm of Holden, McLaughlin & Associates. Designer of swank country homes for the well-to-do, Architect McLaughlin has turned enthusiastically to prefabrication as a solution not only of the U. S. housing problem but of the U. S. architect...
Engaged. Anne Barton Townsend, 32, Philadelphia socialite, all-around athlete (field hockey, basketball, tennis, squash racquets), ten-time member of the All-American women's field hockey team; and Livingston Smith, Philadelphia architect, onetime University of Pennsylvania footballer...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...
Robert Tyre Jones II, for whom Georgia has killed a great many fatted calves, last week opened a new golf course of his own planning, the Augusta National. The course-6,700 yd. from the back tees -was designed by Golf Architect Allister MacKenzie, with Jones's help. Intended to be the "ideal course" for both experts and dubs, it contained only 22 traps. Its appearance-rolling ground in a pleasant valley edged by pine trees-suggested that another Bobby Jones, Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones, had done the settings. Jones escorted foursomes of new members and celebrities invited...