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...eternal problems of art rose last week in the U.S. Capitol: the problem of hanging a historical picture. Since historical pictures cover a lot of space, Capitol Architect David Lynn and a special crew of workmen equipped with pulleys, rollers and winches clambered up and down the Capitol's stairways and through its second-story windows like a swarm of hungry ants tugging at a dead grasshopper. First they removed Francis Bicknell Carpenter's modest mural, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, size 9 by 14, from its 63-year-old place above the east Grand Stairway just...
...Viennese Composer Berg, who died in 1935 (a disciple of Atonalist Arnold Schonberg), sounds like tortured, caterwauling doubletalk. But in this concerto, his atonalism is for once eloquent and heartfelt; it is Composer Berg's elegy on the death of his friend Manon Gropius, daughter of famed Architect Walter Gropius. The Clevelanders and Modernist Krasner give a stirring performance...
Smaller cities were Reith's guinea pigs. First to be singled out for experiment was Coventry, whose City Architect Donald Edward Evelyn Gibson has produced a set of plans. Last week some of his sketches (see cuts) arrived in the U.S. To disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, Architect Gibson's classic-revival façades and pseudo-Roman columns looked disappointingly conservative. But he had laid out his future Coventry on spacious, parklike lines, put huge squares and fountains where crowded slums and shopping districts once knotted Coventry's busy traffic...
...Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
Theo and Tom West get off to a glowing start. Tom, an architect, is absorbed in a low-cost housing project. Theo bears two children rather sooner than she is spiritually adequate to the job. Their friends are solid-seeming, yet Theo finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing...