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...suit with white piping on his vest pottered out of the U. S. Senate chamber one day last week. With a long white holder and an unlighted cigaret in his hand, he emerged smiling like an imp. Through little knots of Capitol tourists he made his way under the rotunda to a small white door marked "To the Dome." clumped down a flight of steps and along a shining corridor, entered a three-room suite which is the only Senator's office remaining in the Capitol building itself...
...that the committee can start moving out tables and chairs in preparation for the dance, which will begin at 10 o'clock. Much of the decorating will be done in the afternoon, but a large portion of it, such as the placing of a fountain in the rotunda, cannot be started until after supper...
Will Bradley's orchestra will provide the music for the Jubilee, and will play from a stand near the entrance to the rotunda. Dancing will go on in both the large and small dinning halls. The exhibition of the Union Photographic Society will remain on display during the evening in the Lower Common Room...
...balloons, will be thrown open to the class of '43 and their 200 female guests and for one night will take on the appearance of the Rainbow Room. Refreshments will be served in the east end of the dining room, while potted palms and bird baths will transform the rotunda into a tropical garden...
Widener has never before had an exhibit center and most of the exhibits have been placed in the corridors, but the new room not only provides the Library with a center it needs, but it also utilizes the otherwise neglected marble-walled rotunda. This gift from the Widener heirs provides the furnishings for the second Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room in the Library...