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...plot, more unusual because of its interpretation than its content, concerns itself with a young architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...
...waiting last week for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court to make up their minds about TVA, workmen draped the elaborate Italian ceiling of the 64-ft. square courtroom with a cheap canvas screen. Also last week in Manhattan a onetime partner of the architect responsible for that classic pile across the plaza from the Capitol sued the architect's son and daughter for a sum estimated at a quarter of a million dollars...
...home for the Supreme Court, which for nearly 70 years had been meeting in dusty discomfort in the original Senate chamber in the Capitol. Chairman of the building committee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who easily persuaded his fellow members to appoint white-haired, dignified Cass Gilbert as architect...
...Architect Gilbert had a proud record of achievement. From his drafting boards had come Manhattan's Woolworth Building, the Minnesota Capitol, the New York Customs House, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the Detroit Public Library-all of them handsome, elaborate, rich in borrowed decoration. On the Supreme Court Building, Chief Justice Taft gave him three orders: "The building must conform in design with the Capitol. It should be enduring. And Mrs. Taft says it should be easy to keep clean...
Following Order No. 1, Architect Gilbert designed a Corinthian temple, flanked by two utilitarian wings for offices, waiting rooms, conference chambers, etc. Following Order No. 2, though the building has a steel frame, its masonry walls are strong enough to support it should every steel beam rust away. Following Order No. 3, the building is almost entirely of marble...