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...that do best away from the sharp ears of the press. The Hotel Senator's 86-ft. bar is much favored by Sacramento's legislators in their more public moments of relaxation. Month ago, just before the Legislature convened, Proprietor Tom Hall called his architect, Gustav Albert Lansburgh, designer of San Francisco's Opera House. He said he had decided to redecorate his bar, rename it The Empire Room...
...dispute until Richard Montgomery Tobin, onetime (1923-29) Minister to The Netherlands took command. As a veteran and a music- enthusiast he was able to reconcile both factions. A $4.000,000 bond issue was floated, one-third of which the city subscribed. Architect Arthur Brown Jr. with Albert Lansburgh collaborating designed twin buildings (one for veterans' organizations, one for opera). They are dignified granite and terra cotta structures which harmonize with the new City Hall at the centre of the civic group which includes the State Building, the Auditorium and the Public Library. For its maintenance the opera house...