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...design of Apthorp House was probably the work of Charles Ward Apthorp, the minister's brother and a relatively competent gentleman builders. Like most educated men of his time. Apthorp considered a knowledge of the orders of architecture an essential part of learning and had mastered the subject well. He was part of the tradition of gentleman architects, who provided Harvard with the schemes for all its earliest buildings...
Charles Bulfinch, eventually to become one of America's most honored architects, was a gentleman builder before he was a professional. He came from a respectable Boston family which had cultivated in him an interest in all the proper disciplines and especially in architecture. He attended to this interest as an undergraduate at Harvard, Class of 1781, and on a trip to Europe after leaving college. His eminence as an architect came surprisingly early in his career, due mostly to the greatness of his design for the Massachusetts State House, one of his first commissions...
...Four Days of Naples evokes sympathy for its Italion protagonists with a minimum of melodrama. It even dares to intersperse this subject with frequent snatches of ironic comedy--a gentleman, for instance, running through the streets in pajamas crying, "Rejoice, solders! We lost the War!" A cast left anonymous in tribute to the real Naples performs superbly, especially, in its use of animated facial gesture. One man being led away for the work crews wrinkles his features into a soulful stare that would have made Chaplin envious. Photography and timing art both managed with artistic sensitiveness...
...Camembert. Back in 1935, when Cole Porter's Anything Goes was the hottest ticket in town, Margaret Whigham Sweeny was more Top than Mickey Mouse or a Coolidge dollar. Chic, beautiful and rich in her own right, the 21-year-old English beauty was married to Gentleman Golfer Charles Sweeny, for whom, the gossip columnists insisted, she had jilted the young Earl of Warwick. That same year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord Beaverbrook's daughter.) Though unmentioned in the song...
...question is, should a gentleman lick the wasp-stung buttock of a lady in distress? Please Don't Walk Around in the Nudel fails to provide an adequate answer, but it does pose the problem in a delightful fashion...