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...building, designed by Architect John Russell Pope, has on its façade an ornate icing of Renaissance cornices, spandrels, balustrades. Inside, however, it is as efficient a library building as exists in the country. Completely air conditioned, there are no windows below the third floor. Besides the stacks, there is a walnut-paneled reading room, a smaller study for advanced students, a photographic studio, a photostat room, offices, cafeteria for the staff...
...Florianus Bluemner has been a pet of the U. S. art world for 25 years. His friends jammed the gallery last week. Fellow artists, retired critics, dealers, fell over each other in their eagerness to tell newshawks about his cat Jochen, his accent, his cigars, his career as portraitist, architect, bartender, philosopher...
Oscar Florianus Bluemner comes from Hanover, Germany. His father was an architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk...
Then came a wave of prosperity. He resumed his profession of architect, practicing for 20 years in an office on Manhattan's 42nd Street. As a painter he exhibited in the Armory Show of 1913 that introduced Matisse, Picasso and the French moderns to a baffled U. S. public. Since 1929 the Whitney Museum has bought three of his canvases. Since his architectural practice evaporated he has never made much money, but he has not lacked critical appreciation...
Delegate Robinson need not have worried. The ostensibly legislative chamber of the Moscow Soviet clearly reveals itself to any practiced architect for what it is. Unlike the U. S. Congress or the French Chamber of Deputies, the room is not constructed with aisles so arranged that any member may leave his seat, ascend the tribune and manifest himself. Instead, Moscow Soviet Delegates sit in pews. Their pew seats have arms which fold up to admit them, then snap down into place. They are not locked in, but might as well be. For an individual Delegate like Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson...