Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January nearly 600 novice architects began work on the preliminary problem for the 25th annual $4,000 Paris prize of Manhattan's Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. All but eight of these were eliminated on the second problem, and in April all but four. The four were told to design an opera house, were put into four small cubicles in the Beaux-Arts Institute. They were isolated, put on their honor not to communicate with each other, given ten weeks to finish...
Kenneth Murchison, famed chairman of the Beaux Arts Ball, showed an orchestra score...
Julian C. Levi also hung up a pair of foils, a mask, and a brass French fireman's helmet, trophy of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, whose disdain for the pompiers of the city is expressed in their marching song...
James Owen Mahoney Jr., latest winner, was born in Dallas 24 years ago, graduated from Southern Methodist University before going to Yale. Twice he has won prizes for the Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics...
...give a ist Prize of $25 in pennies and a hot mince pie to the best Fake of the year. The Fakirs Ball was even more appreciated by the public which quickly discovered that the Fakirs, in their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper way to run a costume ball. There was no débutante-encumbered Pageant. Costumes could be anything at all, and very little of that. Broadway took the Fakirs to its bosom, as did collegians and Greenwich Village girls. Popularity was the death of the Fakirs...