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...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...
...Intruse" by Maeterlinck has also been chosen in place of "L'Etincelle" as formerly announced. "L'Intruse" is a realistic and tragic cross section of an evening at a bourgeois foyer...
...auditorium of the new theatre will seat 660 persons, while the balcony and boxes will care for 240 more. The building will comprise three main parts the entrance with a foyer hall and Triangle Club offices and clubrooms, the auditorium, and the back stage theatrical workshop. The architecture of the interior will be of the Elizabethan period, while the exterior will harmonize with the older buildings on the campus...
...phraseology of "Time"--comes the opera season to the denizens of Greater Boston. It is a signal for many time honored customs: for Willa Jerdone and Betty Alden, experts on Society, to go quite, quite berserk in descriptions of what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions of the life and times of Mary...
...Insull of the Chicago Civic Opera was accosted by one Charles W. King, a wild-eyed fellow who shook his fist and babbled threats "for the way he'd treated Lorna Doone Jackson."*Courteously President Insull listened, took Mr. King's arm, walked with him down the foyer to the manager's office, apparently to give him better chance to air his grievances. There he turned him over to detectives, who ordered him to a psychopathic hospital where doctors found him insane...