Word: exteriorizer
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...Story. Hermann Sudermann, novelist and dramatist, one of the most significant and important figures in recent German literature, turns, in The Book of My Youth, to reminiscence, and sets down, at some length, the exterior and interior events of his life as far as the middle twenties...
...probably the most unpleasant ordeal of their lives, it develops that J. McK. Kimball is a hotel clerk, and not so very good either. To his hotel come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing by Behrens (courtesy of Louis Silvers) but underneath is the one-hundred- per-cent, red-blooded, honest-to-God frame and speaking voice of H. N. Pratt '24, and our personal prediction is that if he doesn't make a name for himself...
...Mantell's scenery has long been a by-word for the medieval in stage design. The interiors for "Richelieu" were amazing feats of architecture, but the one exterior, in the garden of the Louvre, was far more individual. Eyes were suddenly drawn from a landscape of unnatural vegetable growths to the front drop. Two trees luxuriant with leaves and heavy branches, were suspended in mid air with a proud spirit of not needing trunks or roots...
...facade is symbolic in composition and detail. In the central motive, interest centers on the figure of Our Lady of Victory, supported by St. George and St. Michael crushing the Evil Spirits; destruction of the old Library, while underneath, crowning the doors leading to the three exterior pulpits are busts of the heroes of the war, the King, the Queen, and Cardinal Mercier. The coats of arms of Belgium and the United States are framed in the high balustrade which surrounds and crowns the building; in this balustrade is interwoven an inscription describing the destruction of the old Library...
Students of architecture will find much of interest in the great stone buildings of Mexico, Central America, and Peru, with their ornate facades and sculptured inner walls. Casts of some of these walls are shown in the Museum collections. Both interior and exterior of the stone buildings at Mitla, Mexico, are adorned with perhaps the most remarkable series of frets to be found in any section of the world...