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...topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance of a dumb monster (George Rosener) and a paint shop in the attic where purloined vehicles can be made unrecognizable in three and one-quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish...
Paris was on the verge of losing one of its chief showplaces. Tourists flock to the Opéra, ignorantly supposing that they will hear great performances. The building itself gave rise to the legend-the great colonnade, the marble-&-onyx staircase, the cellars awesomely described in The Phantom of the Opera. Performances at the Opéra are generally second-rate, the repertoire and staging oldfashioned. Senators and Deputies often get their discarded mistresses jobs dancing in the ballet, famed for its inferiority...
...same office with Walter Gropius as a young man. Two years ago he followed Gropius as director of the Bauhaus. Unlike copious Gropius, who has designed innumerable buildings, van der Rohe has actually built little-possibly because of his fondness for luxurious building materials : interior walls of onyx, silk curtains 75 feet long...
Into the tunnel leading beyond "Hell's Half Acre" stumbled the party. The tunnel led them into another towering amphitheatre, so lofty that flashlight beams failed to find the ceiling. The white marble stage was set for a vast Wagnerian twilight of the gods, in glittering onyx, with orange-tinted, translucent stone curtains and footlights of stalagmites...
...brought with him a large collection of his sculptures which were last week exhibited in Manhattan. The picador, the ostrich, La Femme-Chatte, were absent; Sculptor de Creeft no longer seeks to shock. Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...