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Vatican workmen readied the ancient stage for the largest consistory in all the long centuries of the Church. Along the giant cornice high in St. Peter's nave, 100 of them walked surefooted, hanging draperies that would backdrop the venerable rites. Below them wooden stands, red-cloth covered, were going up so that the privileged public might witness the ceremonial high point. Carpet-layers were at work. The Pope's throne and the cardinals' chairs were put in place...
Eight farmers in white milking coats carried a red, blue and silver plough down the nave, laid it at the chancel steps and knelt around it. Then another farmer gave thanks for God's gifts while the congregation joined him in repeating the last three words of each sentence: "The rich soil, the smell of the fresh-turned earth-come from God. . . . The beauty of a clean-cut furrow, the sweep of a well-ploughed field -come from...
...symphony orchestra conducted by Jose Iturbi, also performs with touching intensity. But the plethora of money lavished on this production, contrasted with the paucity of imagination and taste, makes an excessively lopsided picture. Typical stupenditure: the Misses Allyson and O'Brien walking mile after mile up the nave of a gigantic studio church, at thousands of dollars per step...
Another virtue is taste. Chorus-girl cheesecake is highly damaging to fund-raising publicity. The usual press-agent stunts have to be carefully curried. When Washington's National Cathedral arranged to have the remains of Admiral Dewey dug up and placed under its nave, a freshman employe of Tamblyn & Brown was so impressed that he immediately got off an office memorandum suggesting that the firm keep its eye on ex-President William Howard Taft (then alive) for its client, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting Freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic night-mare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure. Awaiting this last humiliation Men Hall still towers above the surrounding landscape, triumphant in its magnificent...