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...flower store, Chicago. At his interment were 26 truckloads of flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal-from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services" were held in an undertaker's small chapel. No priest officiated, so one Louis Altiere, lieutenant...
...prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make way for the diamond-studded throng of sagaciously tardy Society- diplomats, titled foreigners, valuably accoutred dowagers, stiffly-starched magnates...
...modern Art in Berlin, free from all limitations of jury. The kult room was the heart of the exhibition. A sign, "Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front. A rug-covered box served as divan. Two cups and saucers lay on a stool-a home-like touch...
...architectural departures at Harvard, announced last week, were received more calmly than "Hush Hall" was at Yale. The Harvard planning board declared its intention of shutting off street scenes and sounds from Harvard's famed Yard. Rather than literally wall off the Yard from Harvard Square and adjacent streets, which might give "appearance of monastic or snobbish seclusion," plans were drawn for a fringe of small dormitories between the present buildings and the fence surrounding the Yard, combined with a new bursar's building, to be called the Counting House. The first of these buildings to rise will...
Alloy. Through the fourth wall of a miserable millworker's hut in a steel town the audience is permitted to gaze at one of the most sordidly natural tragedies now open for inspection. It is a man-and-wife tragedy. The man is a drunkard and a beast. The woman is driven into the protecting arms of the family boarder. Vigorously written and vividly performed by Minna Gombell, the part of the girl carries the evening's interest. The saccharine platitudes and copybook virtue of the boarder (Ivan Miller), take the edge off the climax. If he were an individual...