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...story is as simple as life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others...
Other contributors are Joseph Urban and Armistead Fitzhugh (landscape architect) of Manhattan, Eliel Saarinen of Detroit, Leon V. Solon (ceramics) of Tenafly, N. J. & Manhattan...
...Architects are often heard scoffing at interior decorators. They feel that their own diligent study of ornament and design is a better basis for indoor work than the fancies of a chintzy enthusiast. In- teresting therefore is the exhibition, now at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, of modernist interiors conceived by seven architects, a landscape architect and a ceramic worker...
Goodhue. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, famed U.S. architect and black-and-white draughtsman, died in 1924. He was 55, in the noon of his genius. His most striking work is the massive Nebraska State Capitol, with its tall domed tower and carved prairie legends. His most startling deed was the placing of a dollar sign in stone above the bridal door of fashionable St. Thomas's Church in Manhattan. Last week, in Manhattan's Chapel of the Intercession, which he also designed, Architect Goodhue's memorial tomb was dedicated. Art Critic Royal Cortissoz of Manhattan and Architect Milton...
Married. Mary Meeker, Chicago socialite, daughter of Vice President Arthur Meeker of Armour & Co.; and Ambrose C. Cramer, architect, who was divorced two years ago on the ground of desertion by Mary Meeker's older sister, Grace; in Washington...