Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed old Auditorium. And it contains, apparently, a grave psychological error: In placing the boxes the architect seems to have forgotten that Society is an essential to successful opera. As in cinemansions the boxes are across the back almost in a straight line instead of in a deep horseshoe. The front railings are high. Socialites are far from the stage. Worse, they cannot be seen...
...National Academy of Design, U. S. Art's most venerable institution, last week opened the chaste doors of its annual exhibition just after the Academy's president, white-haired Architect Cass Gilbert (Woolworth Building) had faced a radio microphone and announced...
Every once in a while there breaks a news story so pregnant with sensation that city editors lick their chops and fervently mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...
...playhouses in the Italian districts of U. S. cities. The comedy is built around a young girl whom three elderly bachelors keep from committing suicide. They buy the dressmaking establishment where she used to work and set her up as boss. In the end she marries a young architect. Best role-Enrico Armetta as one of the three old playboys. The hero is Alberto Rabaghati, the heroine Luisa Caselotti...
Author & Artist. Rockwell Kent, 48, onetime well-digger, sailor, farmer, teacher, lobsterman, carpenter, architect, boatbuilder, has a passion for the sea, a passion for painting. Not afraid of solitude, he has lived and sailed much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where...