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Notably absent from the exhibition was the storm centre of modern architecture, the model for $250,000,000 Radio City. The designers were still tinkering with it last week. Prominently present, however, was bristle-headed, kinetic Raymond Hood's model for the scarlet-blue-&-gold Electrical Building for the Chicago World's Fair. Among Norman farmhouses for Pennsylvania tycoons, Spanish palaces for Hollywood directors, French Gothic cathedrals for Idaho Baptists, critics were more interested in Delano & Aldrich's design for the new U. S. Embassy on the Place de la Concorde, Paris...
...face has a blind dignity and pathos and the forms mount up in strange rhythm from the vast limbs set in a rough base. . . . The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner. In this work the sculptor has given us his conception of the primeval mother of the scientists to set beside the 'Eve' of the classics. There is surely room for it in the world...
Eliot House will have chinaware with a red canion, design on if, a Chinese design over 2,000 years old. Black and white after-dinner coffee cups and saucers have also been ordered. Adams House will have a picture of the Yard on its crockery similar to the one now used at Lowell House. Kirkland is having a place with a red baud on the rim and the House seal slightly off the center, while Leverett is to have a design especially adapted from one of the famous Spoke patterns. Winthrop House will have one similar to Eliot House...
Died. Mrs. Eliza Greene Metcalf Radeke, 75, president of the Rhode Island School of Design since 1913, member of the advisory council of Pembroke College (women's college in Brown University), sister of U. S. Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf and of Banker, Publisher & Textile Manufacturer Stephen Olney Metcalf; in Providence...
Like New York's lamented Bank of United States, the National Academy of Design impresses men of simple faith by the grandiose sound of its name. Again like the Bank of U. S. it has long been heartily damned by the cognoscenti, though unlike the crashed bank, nothing could possibly be more respectable than the academy. Last week the National Academy of Design flung wide its doors for a 106th annual exhibition. A great many people crowded in. Last November, stung by the scorn of younger critics, the Academicians and their Associates limited the show to their own works...