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Fine Arts: "Adleu Les Beaux Jours"--a French travelogue romance which is not too good but it has its moments of beauty...
Fine Arts: "Adieu Les Beaux Jours"--French travelogue drama. Reviewed in this issue...
...Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking for cats...
...year separates the births of John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root. their graduation from the Beaux Arts in Paris, their architectural entry into Chicago. In 1919 they were both made partners in Holabird & Roche and young John Root had caught up with old John Holabird. Although their careers have been almost identical, the two Johns are not alike. To Mr. Root, now 47, generally goes credit for brilliant designs and breath-taking solutions; to Mr. Holabird, praise for mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from...
...resembles the figures he produces. Even more akin to them is full-bosomed Mme Lachaise who, although she has seldom posed for her husband, has been the inspiration for most of his amply proportioned torsos. Son of a Paris cabinet maker, Gaston Lachaise was an indifferent student at the Beaux Arts. When the woman who was to be his wife left for her native U. S., he followed her, earning passage money by carving figurines for Glassmaker René Lalique. He worked ten years in the U. S. before he thought he had enough money to get married...