Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1931, Page 21

REAL ESTATE. THE FEVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. MAY 9, 1931.° FOLGER LIBRARY . TOBE IMPRESSIVE Shakespeareana Building Is Rapidly Nearing Completion. (Continued From First Page) | quotations from some of his con- | temporaries. ‘The main facade of the library fronts on East Capitol street, with a drive- way giving off on Second street op- posite the Congressional Library. The driveway will partially circumvent a fountain of white marble, surmounted by a figure of Puck. character of the play “Midsummer ~Night's Dream.” which will be modeled by Miss Brenda Putnam of New York. Reading Room in Tudor Style. On the interior a frank departure has been made with an effort to create a atmosphere distinctly of the Shake- spearean period. This is especially true of the large reading room of the struc- ture, which is characieristically Tudor in style, finished elaborately in oak. At the end of the reading room there is a Jarge Gothic traceried window, which | is a copy of the choir window in the church at Stratford-on-Avon, Where Shakespeare was buried. Other windows are of a new design of classic style, representing the seven stages of man. A series of long windows on the main facade, molded in classic modern style, Jook into a long room, in which will be housed an exhibition of art collected by the late Mr. Folger, which include oil paintings, and also costumes which have been shown in the production of Shakespearean plays. At the east end of the building is a | small theater, or lecture hall, whit‘h‘r has been created in the spirit of the medieval English period. The underly- ing idea of this room has been to re- produce the character of the old court yards, which in olden times were used y strolling players for the presentation of their plays. The general scheme of an ancient courtyard, with surrounding balconies, has been the motivating idea in this Elizabcthan theater. No attempt has been made to make everything in this room consistently ancient in char- acter and therefore will not be in its entirety an archeological exhibit. Chairs in the theater will be modern and comfortable. In the main arcade the modern sloping floor of the mod<rn theater will supplant the level floored pit of the ancient theater. The planting on the grounds sur- rounding the building is already under way and will have a great deal to do with the final effect of the building. The landscaping will include trees, shrubs, hedges and other plant form to produce an attractive ensemble. A feature of this ?‘hlu of the development will be the planting in mass form of juniperus tzeriana, which will be grown along e main facade as thick foliage. The landscaping work is being done by J. H. Small & Sons of this city. A group of rooms at the southwest corner of the structure originally in- tended for the use of Mr. Folger as a library, office and study, is to be known as the Founder’s room. It will be used by Mrs. Folger when she is in Washing- ton and also will be placed at the dis- gsal of the board of trustees of Am- | Tst College, in whose charge the struc- | ture has been placed, with a $10,000,000 endowment to maintain it. It was at Amherst College that Mr. Folger studied and first became interested in Shake- :get.mm He conceived the idea of e Folj Library three years before his death in June of last year. Its total cost is estimated at $1,500,000. Storage Places Provided. A system of ventilation is being in- stalled in the library, by which the air is cleaned and temperatures regulated. ‘The systm also will regulate the amount of humidity. Concealed and indirect heating systems' will furnish ‘warmth for the building. | There is a basement and subbasement | in the structure, providing vaults and storage places for a large number of books. The Folger collection includes between 60,000 and 70,000 volumes. The | tibrary will be completed by August, with the exception of the sculpturing, which | probably will not be finished for several months. Associated with Mr. Cret in the de- signing of the building was Alexander B. Trowbridge of this city, consulting architect. The building contract was awarded to the James Baird Co. Rosenthal Going to Europe. Henry 8. Rosenthal, Cincinnati, Ohio, ¢hairman of the Committee on Public | Relations of the United States Building and Loan League, will sail for Europe this week to attend the International Housing and Town Planning Exposition | in Berlin early in June and to make a study of town planning in Europe. PAINTED MOTIFS OF MANY KINDS MAKE DOORS ADD TO BEAUTY Interior Decoration Editor. Written for McCall's Magazine and The Star. Sometifing had to be done about doors. ’ Formerly, no matter how cleverly you decorated the room, when you got | through there were always those large | masses of uninteresting wood. And | you were lucky if they weren't red ma- | BY MARGERY TAYLOR. ' Draft Relief Programs Suggested. | City. National Association of Real Unfair Realty Burden Claimed. government units employ FEDERAL COST CUT HELD TAX SOLUTION Commission of Experts to The formation of paid commissions of practical experts who will spend eight hours a day drawing tax-relief programs to present to the Legislatures in the various States is probably the only way in which mounting taxes can be stopped in_their ascent throughout the country, Judge Arthur J. Lacy of Detroit told delegates to the recent an- nual meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States at Atlantic Judge Lacy, who has made a spccial study of current tax problems during the past year as chairman of the na- | tional property owners division of the Estate Boards, declared that the only way to reduce taxes is to cut government costs. He declared that overlapping local too many situation has become so acute from coast to coast that. special study is needed by groups of experts who would have nothing else to do, said the speaker. He recommended the appointment of commissions whose duty it would be to draft bills for the consideration of the various Legislatures, to exchange data with other States, some of which have undertaken successful programs re- cently. “Taxes have doubled in the last 10 years in the average community in this country,” said Judge Lacy. “These confiscatory tax burdens tend to fur- ther reduce the tax-paying ability of the country at large. They drive ! wealth into hiding, premiumize non- | productive tax-exempt holdings, dis- courage investments in productive en- | terprises, handicap _industry, injure | business, contribute to unemployment, impoverish agriculture, discourage land ownership, and are hindering recovery | from the present business and agricul- tural depression. “The mounting costs of government | have been, in part, due to the tendency | of public officers, departments, bureaus | and governmental agencies to expand | their functions and extend their pow- | * ountry or Suburban ers. This expansion of public service | and the increase of the number engaged in it have brought us to the state where one-seventh of the national in- come is required to sustain govern- ment in America. This is no compli- ment to a country of our boasted efficiency.” PP TR PP T P T T T TS “0ld Ironsides’” Rudder. A fragment of the original rudder of the American frigate Constitution recently came into the care of the Smithsonian Institution through the will of James C. McGuire of New York. Three pieces of china, which did service in the White House under the admin- istration of James Madison, and & silver tray, once the property of George Wash- ington, were also bequeathed to the United States Government for exhibi- I,l_()n-g_u'ty_l_l_!flv_!vhilv House. B e RS A ST Homes Beyond the Reach of City Water Need a MYERS Electrically Driven e A e ke ok ke Ak Ak Always Insist on “Schafer Quality” Materials E. G. Schafer Co. 4100 Georgia Ave. Telephone ADams 0145 fodadolafofolololodototototototobetabatotod 2.0 XAk dedodedeodok hogany. The new not tolerate this problem, chintz, the motif in the chintz may be copled. Or, if that is too much trouble, there are always the interest- interior decoration could and has | purse has been treated as bottomless, | and that real estate is bearing an unfair | tax burden to archaic systems that al- | lows owners of intangibles | ernment services without sharing their people (one out of every nine persons gainfully employed in America draws | the taxpayer's money); that the public to use gov- | sts. “Haphazard relief bills, drawn by well meaning persons who have other inter- ests and other duties are before the Legislatures in many States, but th ummer has many weeks of pleasure for you in found delightful answers. I There’s a room, for instance, in which | the woodwork is ivory and the wall-| paper lightly patterned. individuality is imparted by door panels | colors of the wallpaper—say green, blue or rose. | Where walls are painted, the door can gracefully be brought into a two-color plan. Thus, if the walls are light egg- colored, why not a line of coral all | around the baseboard, with the inside of closet doors in the same color? What could be a nicer answer to the door problem than one like this: Door frames deep gray, matching the three- foot wainscoting; the four panels of each door and the ceiling, azure blue; and around each panel a border motif in gray and darker blue? And is there any real reason why | door decoration should be plain? Painted motifs of innumerable kinds are possible and are especially good in kitchen, breakfast room or bedroom. If, for instance, the draperies are Southern Exposure CORNER 4217 37th St. N.W. 47-ft. Lot 4 bed rooms. 2 baths, 2-car built-in garage. Red tile mansard. An outstanding' corner., Price and Terms Reasonable Open, Lighted, Daily and Sunday Until 9 P.M. Walter A. Dunigan 925 15th St. N.W. 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