Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer red, trimmed with black. At the red desk...
...theatre with a bronze statue of his father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator with a theatre and office building to fill, as well as a producer. I was in a hurry to recoup my losses, and I made the mistake...
...more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which for weeks kept world cables busy. And it left Northfield's Speer with still $880,000 to raise...
...yard breast stroke--Golden, Larcom, H. C. Lehmon '33, J. J. Thompson...
...yard free style--Golden, Fallon, and Wood...