Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson Richardson (see p. 29) and an exhibition of that architect's work. The second floor was given over entirely to the flaming posters of A. Mouron Cassandre, French advertising artist who produced the chunky little man who drinks Dubonnet all over the world. Only those long of wind and strong of purpose who clumped up to the third...
...exhibit the reverse of the medal, ornamented by the likeness of a stage lady of a different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...
...Racket" No season ends normally without the customary agitation over professionalism. This year's came from Professor George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, naval architect and father of George Owen Jr., Harvard's famed all-round athlete who caused something of a sensation himself twelve years ago by describing football as "drudgery I never enjoyed." To the Cambridge (Mass.) Industrial Association Professor Owen declared that "the language of the coaches far outdistances the most colorful of the Navy speech," that universal subsidizing of football players was an open secret, that "the greatest offenders" were Notre Dame...
...sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom...
Under the auspices of the School of City Planning, William S. Parker '99, Boston architect and planning commissioner, will lecture in Robinson Hall at 11 o'clock this morning on "Planning for Housing...