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Onto this extraordinary set Playwright Kingsley leads a poor crippled architect who, in the vain hope of winning a young woman living with one of the plutocrats in the fine apartment, informs on a boyhood friend named "Babyface" Martin. Martin's predilection for homicide has ranked him as Public Enemy No. 1. At the same time, the dramatist shows by inference how "Babyface" Martins are made by tracing the activities of a moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which...
...Said Architect Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Harding Memorial: "If she's so modest, why did she enter the Atlantic City contest? The girl is belittling what won her the prize...
...last week's lecture Architect Le Corbusier tried to explain his Radiant City all over again. Speaking no English, he strode up & down with a box of colored chalks before enormous sheets of thin paper on which he scribbled skyscrapers on stilts, trees, frogs, elevated roadways, blue clouds, orange suns. The secret of Radiant City seemed to be to limit motor traffic to elevated roadways, put all buildings on stilts with playgrounds and footpaths underneath, roof gardens above...
...still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after the Arts Decoratifs Exposition of 1925 did he gain an international reputation as a builder. By that time many a young architect was working on the problem of stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials in building. But it remained for Le Corbusier to supply the crackling phrases which often did more to promote and popularize modern architecture than any number of houses in that style designed...
Married. Marie Mclntyre, 23, daughter of Marvin Mclntyre, No. 1 assistant secretary to President Roosevelt; and Frederick Hayes Warren II, 25. supervising architect on an RFC dam at Phoenix, Ariz.; in Washington...