Word: auditoriums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brno, Czecho-Slovakia, St. Austin's was designed as a simple parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...
Clustered in the 500-seat auditorium of Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce, 150 well-dressed, solemn delegates met one day last week in the 14th annual convention of the tiniest national group in U. S. finance: the National Negro Bankers' Association. Through the day they listened to many a solemn paper on subjects that the august American Bankers Association might have scheduled: profitable use of FHA mortgages, handling of bond accounts, ways of boosting depressed bank earnings...
...afternoon in Philadelphia last week the small, neat auditorium of Woman's Medical College was abuzz with 500 stenographers, teachers, socialites and charwomen, members of the first group that ever banded together specifically to ward off cancer in their own bodies. Last year Woman's Medical College, only institution of its kind in the U. S.,* got $2,400 from the American Medical Association...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church are and shall be one united church." When Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex. voiced those words, in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium one night last week, 900 delegates to the Methodist Uniting Conference answered in roaring unison: "We do so declare." Bishops and delegates then cried aloud: "To the Methodist Church thus established we do solemnly declare our allegiance, and upon all its life and service we do reverently invoke the blessing of Almighty God. Amen...
...evidence that the Museum can mix its own concrete: a million-dollar building on a million-dollar lot, with a sheer, severe front of plate glass, white marble and thermolux (a translucent sandwich made of spun glass insulator between two sheets of plate glass), galleries with collapsible walls, library, auditorium, projection rooms and roof terrace. The chairs and desks which furnish it (by van der Rohe, Breuer, Aalto, et al.) are in themselves a show of industrial fine...