Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wing have been reproduced from the Naumberg home in New York. The entrance to the east wing is through a passageway leading into a room which is a original furniture and decorations. Two other rooms correspond to the former living room and balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of the collection have been placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Farnsworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accord with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the formal atmosphere...
...late autumn Manhattanites will be able to enter the world's biggest theatre, five stories high, spired by 26 stories of Radio-Keith-Orpheum enterprises. In the domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will...
Preceding the luncheon there will be a meeting in the Foyer at which J. H. William, professor of Economics, will deliver an address on the subject, "Is Paying for the War Bankrupting the World?" Professor Williams will speak for the interests of America, while J. W. Angell, professor of Economics at Columbia University, will present the cause of the European powers in the question...
...wing will be through a passageway leading from the Ross study of the Museum into the room which was the dining room of the Naumberg home. In addition to this room there will be two others, the former living room and a balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of art of the collection will be placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Fransworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accordance with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the usual...
...Saturday night the feature will be continuous buffet service serving refreshments set up in the foyer, in addition to the regular a la carte service at reserved tables. The Barbary Coast Orchestra of Dartmouth, and the Harvardians will supply the music between 7 and 12 o'clock...