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Philip Johnson, whose province is interior decoration, described the "functional modern approach" of his art, which is now governed almost despotically by the principle of utility. That principle needed to be evoked after the clutteration of the mid-Victorian home. We shall never experience the dubious joy of accumulating useless and ornamental junk. In fact, Miss Catherine Bauer, whose article deals with houses and cities, has no doubts about the passing of the self-contained, isolated home, man's castle, and she is all for communal housing. To the romantic the apartment house is of course far from desirable...
...strength of his one-man expedition is doubled when he strikes up an acquaintanceship with Perken, a German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands...
...interest to exponents of Old Justice. Last week they prepared to follow every detail of the Roiderer case, which had become rather public because the U. S. Embassy insisted upon knowing something about what was happening to the accused U. S. citizen. As a special favor German Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick authorized U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist to be present at the trial in Berlin...
...Interior Decorators...
Died, John Barton Payne, 79, chair man of the American Red Cross, Secretary of the Interior under-President Wilson; of pneumonia; in Washington...