Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, approximately one-third of the audience can see the stage none too well. Last week in Musical America an article by Editor Deems Taylor describing Joseph Urban's design for the new Metropolitan Opera House to be situated on West 57th St., Manhattan, promised that each and every operagoer could see the stage...
...down the number of boxes from 54 to 35, to increase total seating capacity from 3,600 to 5,372. In oldfashioned opera houses seeing the stage was of minor importance. Since Richard Wagner introduced epic and dramatic beauties, the importance of the stage has increased. Mr. Urban's plans not only provide superior sight lines for the audience; they also include a stage mechanism of elevators, steel screens, side rostrums, of such modern ingenuity that Max Reinhardt, most inventive of stage directors, exclaimed he could present any of his revolutionary dramatic spectacles...
These plans, however, are not final. Mr. Urban has been variously designated "architect," "associate architect," "assistant architect." His name and work are coupled with Architect Benjamin Wistar Morris. Mr. Morris' plans are likely to differ from Mr. Urban's, since they were drawn up separately, are based on a different school of architecture, are said to preserve the old traditions of opera houses, including the old number of boxes in the horseshoe...
...Special Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they skip the terminals and are expedited in the railway mail cars...
...Urban v. Rural. Only first-class mail pays its own way. Hence there are annual deficits in all the five branches of U. S. mail service which carry all classes of mail. Yet the Rural Free Delivery is regarded by some people as more of a public welfare service than City Delivery, Village Delivery, the Star Routes* or the Railway Mail. Mr. New could not see how this distinction could be made, nor why some people want to have the Rural Free Delivery deficit treated as an extra-postal expense in the national budget...