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...wing have been reproduced from the Naumberg home in New York. The entrance to the east wing is through a passageway leading into a room which is a original furniture and decorations. Two other rooms correspond to the former living room and balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of the collection have been placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Farnsworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accord with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the formal atmosphere...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum enterprises. In the domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will be pigskin. Tube aluminum furniture will be upholstered in hairhide. There will be 16-sided lounging rooms with copper ceilings...
...life at Enkendal is no longer possible without him: he returns. In the tower over the library are her rooms. There, by means of a secret stairway, Alison climbs night after night. Their love has long been consummated when von Norwitz returns from the war, a hopeless invalid...
...tough it had to be killed. There were battles royal on the ballroom-floor. Drunken youths played the hat & coat game in the cloakrooms. Chorus girls had their clothes torn off. Somebody shattered the chandeliers in the Hotel Astor; next year the Fakirs rolled table tops down the Commodore stairway, injuring several passersby. The Fakir exhibitions stopped in 1917, but the Ball went on. In 1923 New York hotelkeepers banded together and announced that so far as they were concerned the Fakirs might hold their Ball in an armory, ball park, stadium or prize ring, but nor in any hotel...
...wing will be through a passageway leading from the Ross study of the Museum into the room which was the dining room of the Naumberg home. In addition to this room there will be two others, the former living room and a balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of art of the collection will be placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Fransworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accordance with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the usual...