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Manhattan Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was Exposition Chairman. He is 55, small, white-haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
...opus is a sort of chant for four men's voices with piano accompaniment. Its title is Capital, Capitals. It is supposed to represent a conversation among the four capitals of Provence-Aix, Aries, Avignon and Beaux-and according to Composer Thomson "is not about anything any more than any pleasant conversation is about anything...
Excerpts from the Stein text: Did he and his wife and his sister expect to eat little birds. Little birds least of all. All the capitals that begin with A. Aix Aries and Avignon. Those that begin with be Beaux. That makes four. These that begin with B. Barcelona. Those that begin with M. Marseilles and Mallorca. You mean Palma. Yes P. Palma da Mallorca. . First Capital: Egypt. Second Capital: Rabbit. Third Capital: Fingering. Fourth Capital: Ardently silk. Fourth Capital: Spontaneously married. Third Capital: Camel's hair. Second Capital: Eider Down. First Capital: Chenille...
Beginning today and continuing throughout tomorrow and Thursday the Beaux Arts collection of drawings and paintings will be exhibited at the Old Fogg Museum under the auspices of the department of Architecture. The collection, which includes representative works from various periods, has been sent to various schools and colleges in the country by the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, of New York...
...group of drawings and paintings to be shown here has been collected over a period of several years from various foreign and American collections. The Beaux Arts institute, in sending the collection to colleges, to be put on public exhibition, is making an attempt to further general public knowledge of and appreciation...