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...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
Nobody hates cities more than patriarchal U. S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. To him Manhattan is a "great huddle" whose skyscrapers are "one of the most infernal inventions." Nevertheless it was in Manhattan's great huddle last week that the Museum of Modern Art put on a huge exhibition of the life work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The 71-year-old architect went to Manhattan himself to install the exhibition...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...
...great hand at modernizing U. S. hospitals is 67-year-old Dr. Goldwater. A talented though unschooled architect, he has acted as private consultant in the building of over 200 big hospitals throughout the world, was called in to help reform the British voluntary hospital system, helped design a vast institution in Leningrad for the Russian Government. His is the plan for operating-room suites now used in big hospitals : two surgical rooms linked by a sterilizing and "scrub" room...
THIS DEATH WAS MURDER-March Evermay-Macmillan ($2). Widow Haskell had three daughters, two sons, money. Then she married a gentle, frugal architect-artist, Erich Humphrey. After her death, Erich was murdered. An absorbing play of brother-sister-mother motives (not to mention lawyer and caretaker problems...