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...costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare. Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem. Only Pressagent Dexter Fellows of Ringling Bros. Circus could have done justice to the array of talent which Roxy brought together for the public to gape at and listen to for as long as two hours and as little as 75? including...
...engineers and technical experts. Technocracy was the new "ism's" name and its proponents styled themselves Technocrats Headquartered at Columbia University they announced that, employing three dozen unemployed engineers, architects and draftsmen, they were conducting an "Energy Survey of North America." Startling was their array of statements about technological unemployment, mankind's machines destroying mankind's chance to earn a living "under the present price system." As preliminary fireworks they expounded such statistics as these...
...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
...fifteenth anniversary of the entry of the United States into the World War was commemorated April 6. In Washington on that day the President and dignitaries of the government took part in elaborate public celebration of the event; in several other cities, companies of infantry in full array marched through the streets amid the cheers of "patriotic" citizens. Loyal Americans have made articulate their satisfaction at participating in one of the most destructive wars of history. During the past week, motion pictures of these parades have been shown in newsreels at theatres in order to stimulate the patriotism of persons...
...which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added a structure for common rooms and library, whose Georgian exterior leaves the unsuspecting visitor unprepared for the array of carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor which calls to mind the stern lines...