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...costs) insists that one or two houses be on the drafting table at all times. Says he: "A house presents so many problems that the man who can design one successfully can build anything." A prime example of such a house in the over-$100,000 class is the Starkey house in Duluth, Minn, (opposite), completed less than a year ago, which not only provides specific solutions to the client's living pattern and selected site, but incorporates so many of Breuer's trademarks (e.g., sliding glass panels, bold use of color) that it has become a showpiece...
Design for Living. When young, recently widowed June Halverson Alworth (now Mrs. Robert J. Starkey) first walked into Marcel Breuer's office more than two years ago, she knew only that she wanted a house large enough for herself and her three children that would make the best possible use of her rocky hillside site with its sweeping view of Lake Superior. The site problems were made to order for Breuer, who feels the hillside house can ideally combine both the snug, down-to-earth feeling, where the building is anchored to the upper slope, with a soaring, cantilevered...
...DEVIL IN MASSACHUSETTS (310 pp.) -Marion L. Starkey-Knopf...
...debonair, Freudianized study of the Salem witch trials, Marion L. Starkey analyzes the maidenly affliction as hysteria. She sees the girls as partly possessed and partly calculating, weighed down by the rigors of Calvinism, depressed by the lack of an outlet for their high spirits, and finding in their seizures a way both to draw attention to themselves and to wreak an incredibly malicious revenge on the adult world...
When Robert Montgomery played the megalomaniac in the movies some ten years ago, he established a role that summer stock stars have been trying to emulate ever since. The latest attempt, by Walter Starkey, is unfortunate. His portrayal of a murderer is convincing enough, but it is a job unfinished. He forgets the depth of the character in completely failing to expose that "soft center" he claims to have. But Montgomery had some advantages: first, of being a superior actor, and second, of having, on the screen, a medium more effective for emphasizing the mysterious hat-box, in which...