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Swank, cynical Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the "Iron Chancellor," lives lavishly in London as German Charge d'Affaires with his moneyed and shapely Swedish wife. Princess Ann von Bismarck (Née Tengbom). daughter of a famed Stockholm architect. Last week Prince Bismarck was chosen by Chancellor Hitler to touch off a stick of disarmament dynamite...
With their hats in their hands, 100 architects, art students and earnest souls tittuped round the Milwaukee Art Institute last week looking at photographs, blueprints and elevations of what a commission of three Chicago architects considered Milwaukee's greatest architectural monuments. Shepherding the Pilgrims round the gallery was a Milwaukee architect, Alexander Carl Guth, who was expected to say a few words of appreciation. Alexander C. Guth. secretary of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, recent ardent convert to modernism, said a few words to set Milwaukee conservatives' hair acurl. Excerpts...
Contrary to popular impression, money for the Coit Tower was left not for a personal memorial but to the city Art Commission "to expend the same in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...work on the subject for the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, has been selected for chairman. The other two members of the committee are Kenneth B. Murdock '16, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Charles A. Coolidge '81, architect of the new Houses...
...Alexander the import of the message was unmistakable, and he insisted on examining Pharos. He found the situation most favorable, and to the infinite exasperation of his architects and engineers, he commanded that the original plans be abandoned, that new be drawn and executed for the island. "Homer," remarked the Emperor Alexander smugly, was a "very good architect, besides his other excellencies." There is more to the story, very dryly told by Plutarch. This morning at eleven Professor Jackson will lecture on Homer from a point of view somewhat more aesthetic than that of the militarist, Alexander...