Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1930, Page 14

K14 AMERICANS TO-BUILD PROJECT IN RUMANIA Housing P;ugnm to Be Carried Out—TU. 8. Architect Designs New Capitol. ey NEW YORK, (NANA)—A notable triumph of American architecture is RO - 1 tecture, excepting a few native examples | and German importations, is French in | tradition. The modern parts of Bu- | charest resemble Paris as closely as | possible. The new suburbs, excepting | for the Rococco so admired in the Bal- | kans, look like any Southern California | subdivision. ‘The set-back scyscrapers, the modern factory and 1929 concrete and steel American designs have been taken up by the moderns of Europe, especially in Germany. Hence it would not have been so surprising had Rumania called ,in an American to design a capitol in | the modern manner. The success of an | American architect in a fleld tradition- |CRITICS ARE SKEPTICAL ' OF OPERAS IN ENGLISH llodemiud, Cut and Readapted Texts Presented to Encourage Anglo-Saxon Composers. NEW YORK (N.ANN.A.).—Another week of opera in English, with old texts modernized, cut and adapted to meet a taste impatient of the classic forms, leaves critics here benevolent {and skeptical. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 2, 1930—PART ONE. 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