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Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...
...artists. The exhibition seemed to prove that there is no such thing as a Philadelphia "school." A bleak hospital room with red door ajar was called The Gate of Heaven by Artist Wayne Martin. Henry Cooper had a stooped oldster wheeling a cart through a narrow Paris street. A gingerbread corner store with bright green shades by Grace Thorp Gomberling was typical of Philadelphia's outskirts. Leon Kelly's Interior of a Slaughter House showed two men dwarfed by a large gory carcass...
...married Emma Townsend Scott in a private suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1905. His first wife, Julia Graves of Aurora, Ill. had died three years before. His bride was 28, California-born, the divorced wife of a picture dealer. They went to the Victorian house with the gingerbread façade shortly after the panic of 1907. There for nearly two decades while he ruled the destiny of Steel, she entertained the kings of industry, the royalty of Europe...
March writes simply, and extraordinarily well. His style is unornamented by any literary gingerbread, and he is able almost always to find the right words with which to clothe an idea: expressions neither clever pungent nor, neither clever nor erudite--but natural, and honest. His characters, too, give the illusion of verisimilitude, much more than do Faulkner's, though of course they suffer from the necessity of proving that existence is unpleasant and futile. Two novel devices, somewhat reminiscent of Dos Passons' "Camera Eye" and "Newsreels" are used by March to emphasize and reiterate his theme. "The Whisper" consists...
...dark, drafty corridors of the gingerbread building that houses the Department of State were thronged last week by foreign ambassadors and ministers marching & countermarching at a tempo set by the White House. The moose-tall figure of Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay came & went repeatedly at the spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud...