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...political conferences that do best away from the sharp ears of the press. The Hotel Senator's 86-ft. bar is much favored by Sacramento's legislators in their more public moments of relaxation. Month ago, just before the Legislature convened, Proprietor Tom Hall called his architect, Gustav Albert Lansburgh, designer of San Francisco's Opera House. He said he had decided to redecorate his bar, rename it The Empire Room...
...Empire but a sort of Roxified Renaissance is the Hotel Senator bar, and Architect Lansburgh had just two weeks to get the work done. Puzzling this problem he called in the fastest-working firm of mural painters he could think of, the Heinsbergen Decorating Co. of Los Angeles, and last week the job was done. Before the startled eyes of Empire Room drinkers appeared two 9-ft. panels, the first known murals on the subject of the Love of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson...
...Department of Architecture. Professor Gropius comes to Harvard from a private practice in London; his work during his four years there, and five years of practice in Berlin are the best proof of his prowess as an exponent of modern technique. As well as being a foremost "practical" architect, his theories of architectural design, eyed askance by traditionalists when he first advanced them, are now regarded as probably the most influential in the field of modern architecture...
Noyes, who as an undergraduate was "Ibis" of the Lampoon and an editor of the CRIMSON, spent the last two years in Iran as architect to the Persepolis expedition of the Oriental Institute...
...York Poultry Show in Manhattan last week were a 42-Ib. turkey, a "talking goose'' which performed on the NBC Children's Hour. Jimmy Walker paid $500 for a pair of Blue Azore chickens to take down to his new farm on Long Island. An addled architect wrung the neck of a prize gamecock, tried to make off with it under his coat. But the prime news of this annual gathering of fowl fanciers, the biggest in 23 years, was its display of the largest number of ornamental pheasants ever exhibited at a U. S. show...