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...lower East Side two barefaced, rectangular apartments rear their bricks twelve stories into the air. Jointly christened Knickerbocker Village, they cover four whole city blocks. Between the two units is a concrete playground, and within each will be a garden. Each of the 1,593 apartments has wooden parquet floors, electric refrigeration, tiled bathrooms, outside windows. The elevators are self-operating. Rentals range from $22.50 for 2½ rooms on the ground floor to $87.50 for a 5½-room penthouse. Average is $12.50 a room. Knickerbocker Village will cost about $9,000,000, and with the exception of Rockefeller Center...
...house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring and plate glass mirrors had been scrupulously polished. The control room for this $100,000 plant, which had taken six weeks to build and had been in operation only ten days, was located in the late Mrs. Belmont's bedroom. A sign outside the door warned: KEEP...
...stage, impressive in uniforms copied from the ones they wore in the army of Tsar Nicholas: black, belted tunics, dark blue breeches with a single scarlet stripe, high black boots. Then fast as a flying beetle came Jaroff. He flashed one shining smile which seemed to include everyone from parquet to gallery, then turned, crouched, lifted his little elbows and brought forth an amazing burst of sound...
...thing I cannot understand. How can you always be here, not only on time but some-times several hours ahead, while you?" and he glared at the expensive parquet and balcony? "with automobiles and every convenience in the world, are utterly unable to do the same thing...
...Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, Vladimir de Pachmann, famed Russian pianist, aged 75 (TIME, Sept. 10), gave a recital on the pianoforte -his first in America in twelve years. Standees packed the parquet five deep...