Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Character of Gothic Architecture," Professor Edgell, Fine Arts 1d, New Fogg Museum...
Cosmopolitan, Columbus Circle.--This is one chance in a life time to see highly stylized acting, in which lines are subordinated to voice and gesture, the tools with which the actors mould their characters. It is the stage equivalent of gothic statuary--gargoyles and everything--and is supreme of its kind...
...church will stand at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street.* Its tower will be 375 feet high. It will cost $4,000,000. Charles Collens and Henry Pelton are the architects. The inside will be Romanesque, the outside Gothic. Elevators will run up through 20 stories of women's rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart...
Architects Collens and Pelton went from Paris to Barcelona in a motor car last summer to get ideas for the new church. They studied how the Gothic architects threw stone into the sky like lace. It took them 21 days. At Le Mans, Carcassonne, Burgos, Leon, Valencia, Salamanca, Segovia and Toledo, they admired the Cathedrals, but they liked Chartres best...
...English Gothic Architecture." Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall. Fine Arts...