Word: foyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important reception guests draw up in front, under the White House porte cochère, and march directly in past the President's Seal embedded in the floor of the main foyer...
...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...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...