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No one was prepared to hear Heaven-storming, epoch-making music last week. Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington...
Last week in Manhattan Rockefeller Center awarded its third big mural contract to a U. S. artist.- Bearded Boardman Robinson will paint a 16x10 ft. mural in the lobby of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum building. But observers found that sly Artist Robinson had slipped into his design for capitalist Rockefeller...
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State...
Men Like Skyscrapers
"It has been said that the skyscraper was forced upon New York by reason of the narrow limits of Manhattan Island. This entirely misses the point. Men build skyscrapers because they like skyscrapers. They concentrate them in a district because they wish to concentrate them. There are plenty of places...