Word: skyscraperism
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The Roerich American expedition, once supposed lost, has been out since 1924. It is sponsored by the Roerich Museum, Manhattan, which last week announced plans for skyscraper headquarters.
Engaged. Genevieve Carpenter, daughter of famed composer John Alden Carpenter ("Skyscraper Ballet"), to J. Elliot Cabot, Boston scion. When Miss Carpenter made her début in 1922 at a musicale in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Pianist Rubenstein played the program.
Bruno Paul, famed German modernist architect, onetime Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts, reached the U. S. on the German liner Columbus, last week, and told that he has just been commissioned to erect "Berlin's first skyscraper" (12 stories).
Skyscraper. The steel riveter-the man who builds the hanging gardens of the U. S.-is herein made the subject of jest. One riveter drops a red hot rivet down the seat of another riveter's pants. Both are rivals for the hand of a chorus girl. The successful...
The Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is...