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Last week in Wilmington. N. C. (pop. 32,270), a downtown building recently occupied by an undertaker's parlor was undergoing a cheerful change. Carpenters and painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district...
Solemnest of man's buildings, the mausoleum gets its name from the great tomb of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus (c. 353 B.C.). The favorite mausoleum of a generation ago resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual...
This family memorial will not be isolated. When saturnine old A. I. du Pont died in 1935 he left a trust fund of $4,000,000, $1,000,000 in cash and "Nemours," his 1,600-acre Wilmington estate, to establish a foundation for Delaware's crippled children and aged poor. For this foundation, the $300,000 mausoleum will be the architectural centre. It was reported last week that as soon as workmen finish waterproofing the vaults, Jessie Ball du Pont, A. I.'s widow, may have a section of Nemours' high wall knocked down to allow...
...Franklin Roosevelt, whom the cruel misfortune of a single illness deprived of the enjoyment of activities which lesser men take as a matter of course, nothing is dearer than action. Last week, unchained from his desk at the White House, he had his fill of it. He was in Wilmington, Hyde Park, New York City, Washington. Gettysburg. He motored, visited the sick, planned a house, laid a cornerstone, picnicked, orated and dedicated...
...President greeted Swedish royalty. His welcome to Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, 55-year-old heir of 80-year-old King Gustaf V. took place in a sick room at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Three days before the President had stopped in heavy rain at Wilmington, Del. to help dedicate a monument by Sculptor Carl Milles to the settling there, three centuries ago, of the first Swedes and Finns in America, but the tall Crown Prince, painfully stricken at the last moment by a kidney stone, had to let his third son,' dark, handsome, fast...