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...colleges and universities opened their own architectural schools they too affiliated with Beaux-Arts. In 1926 every U. S. architectural school except Harvard used Beaux-Arts problems, submitted monthly drawings of standard problems to the Institute's jury of architects...
...black velvet, John Gielgud came as "Night." On a white horse Gertrude Lawrence came as "Day." Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, "Silver Rain," wore 600 yards of silver-lined bugle fringe, a headdress six feet wide illuminated with blue neon tubes. Gypsy Rose Lee wore spangles. That was the seventeenth Beaux-Arts Ball which took place at Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week...
Long before Actor Gielgud and Actress Lawrence had returned their mounts to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate...
...many an observer, the success of last week's Ball signalized the renascence enjoyed by the Beaux-Arts Institute since Ely Jacques Kahn became chairman of its Board of Trustees three years ago. The first architectural school in the U. S., founded in 1894 by a group of U. S. architects trained at Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Institute had begun to show signs of declining into old age. The idea of the founders had been to set up a central agency of architects which would license any group of five or more students...
...Beaux-Arts built a five-story structure in Manhattan to house its own drawing classes. But architects and colleges were beginning to complain that its slant was too traditional, theoretical, unpractical. Year after year the problem sent contestants for the Beaux-Arts Scholarship to Paris was an opera house, although no notable opera house had meanwhile gone up in the land except the one Utilitarian Samuel Insull built in Chicago in 1929. As Beaux-Arts prestige threatened to crack, University of California resigned its membership and University of Virginia followed...