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(See front cover*) When autumn comes, lights are lit at night in the opera houses and orchestra halls of the land. Top hats and ermine come out of the closets of the wealthy, precious tickets are clutched firmly by the poor but cultured, and Music returns to its own in...
The traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog...
Seriously as well as cynically, some Art critics have called plumbing the only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison...
Like misers in their closets, each little Central European government was trying to hoard its currency last week. Hungarians, always drastic and dramatic, were first to declare an actual "transfer moratorium." In Budapest handsome blond Baron Frederick de Koranyi (who in ornate Magyar costume on State holidays makes Magyar ladies...
Of the hundreds of characters which Producer David Belasco created and presented during his more than 50 years in the U. S. theatre, the greatest by far was David Belasco. For all the time that he was bringing new realities to the stage- placing live roses at the heroine'...