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Strange and condoned has been the existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with...
Widely condoned have such episodes been, for Frank Lloyd Wright is rated a very original, great and influential architect indeed, although personally impulsive and improvident. Last week certain of his Chicago friends decided that they could at least overcome his improvidence. They made him become an institution with a charter. Frank Lloyd Wright, Inc. has issued $50,000 worth of preferred stock. He himself is no stockholder...
...Architect Wright was born in 1869 on a Wisconsin farm where he spent his precocious childhood tending sheep. With no formal education he informally studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Although he received no degree he became unusually proficient in that profession. Twenty years ago his reputation in architecture was worldwide...
...United States, Mr. Cotton, will address the guests. Following these addresses, a portrait of Dean Pound, painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson of Boston, will be presented to the School by the Harvard Law School Association. The President of the University will receive the keys of the building from the architect, Mr. Charles A. Coolidge of Boston. Honorary degrees will be conferred on distinguished foreign scholars...
Following the addresses by Dean Pound and Under Secretary of State Cotton, a portrait of Dean Pound, painted by Mr. C. S. Hopkinson '91, of Boston, will be presented to the school by the Harvard Law School Association. The keys of the building will be delivered by the architect, C. A. Coolidge '81, of Boston, to the President of the University. Honorary degrees will be conferred upon distinguished foreign scholars...