Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Common, part of Cape Ann near Gloucester, Mass., lately appeared carved legends such as "Prosperity Follows Service," "Be Clean," "Help Mother," "Get a Job," "Save." When one such marking, the simple number "31,"* was carved on a boulder on the property of Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, widow of Manhattan Architect Rayne Adams and descendant of early settlers, she rose up in protest, revealed the carver to be Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some...
...First an architect in California, then a painter in Chicago, then an interior decorator in Manhattan, Decorator Deskey is credited with the introduction of tubular metal furniture to the U. S. He promised "sane modern design" for International Music Hall, to be used for vaudeville under Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel's direction.* Already a score of artists were planning details...
...gentleman fatigued by his young wife?you would doubtless be prepared to supply an outline of its plot. The outline would be accurate. The young wife has a mercenary sister. The husband has a wealthy friend to whose country estate he pays a visit. Another visitor is a young architect who likes to dance. When the wife and sister arrive, the architect and the wife carry on and are soon arrested for embracing each other on a public highway. This gives the husband a chance to give his wife a divorce and marry his charming secretary whose tastes in amusement...
...idea of a "machine-made house" may not be accepted quickly. But Architect Fisher feels that when people see such homes are cheaper, more attractive, more comfortable to live in, prejudice will diminish. He points out that mass-production has increased rather than hurt the functional and esthetic beauty of automobiles. Large advertising campaigns will be put on and when competitors arrive, the structural features of various types of houses may be as widely-known and discussed as Floating Power and Free Wheeling...
...drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last week he got a telegram. He thought the judges, including Architects Ely Jacques Kahn and Whitney Warren, had decided. Fran tically he jumped into a taxi, urged the driver to speed. They were arrested. At midnight Richard Granelli reached the Institute at last, heard the news that he had won the $4.000 prize, giving him 18 months at Ecole des Beaux-Arts...