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March 7--"The Sixteenth Century...
March 14--"Bernini and the Sixteenth Cenaury...
...week's final payments swelled the sum which the U. S. recovered from the Doheny companies, together with its oil lands, to a total of $24,237,341.05. The report of the receivership which has been managing Elk Hills since 1924 showed that operating costs had totaled only one-sixteenth of the income from the property, despite Oilman Doheny's insistence that he undertook the Elks Hills leases with "patriotic" motives...
...enters, and at the end of the west arcade, is the so-called Great Hall, a full two stories in height, and lighted on the eastern side by three large windows. The ceiling of the Great Hall is an acquired masterpiece of French workmanship, a dark, heavily-beamed, sixteenth century ceiling from Dijon. The whole of the ceiling is richly carved. A small second-floor balcony and a number of windows on the west side, at an eye's level above a concealed passage, permit a close inspection of the whole. In the west passage leading to the Great Hall...
There are two stories of exhibition galleries along Quincy Street, the upper story having a toplight. The most important gallery on the main floor is Guest Hall, rising to a height of two stories and roofed with a beamed ceiling which is itself a sixteenth century work from Dijon. This room, which is finished in rough plaster with a stone floor, will be used principally for the exhibition of tapestries and mural decorations...