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...French Architect Here...
...Alice, 1910 debutante; divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington who gardens; onetime president of the New York Junior League; famed amateur ski-jumper (last year's winner of the Swiss Gold Ski Prize for Women...
...Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Leo Hendrick Baekeland (bakelite),* President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University, Irving Langmuir of General Electric...
...edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed old Auditorium. And it contains, apparently, a grave psychological error: In placing the boxes the architect seems to have forgotten that Society is an essential to successful opera. As in cinemansions the boxes are across the back almost in a straight line instead of in a deep horseshoe. The front railings are high. Socialites are far from the stage. Worse, they cannot be seen...
Every once in a while there breaks a news story so pregnant with sensation that city editors lick their chops and fervently mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...