Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1935, Page 22

B—6 REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING ARCATECT BACK BULDING DEALS Francis P. Sullivan Heads Program of Co-Operation on Public Buildings. Large Town House Purchased A program of co-operation with the | Government to attain “the highest type of architecture” in public build- | ings to be erected throughout the | country has been adopted by the American Institute of Architects, it i announced by the president of the institute, Ernest J. Russell of SL‘ Louis. | Francis P. Sulllvan of Washington, D. C, has been appointed chairman of the institute’s Committee on Pub- lic Works, which will direct the effort. Mr. Sullivan, who succeeds Louis La Beaume of St. Louis, has been serving | as chairman of the institute’s Com- | mittee on the National Capital and | as a member of the Architects’ Code | Committee. He is a former president | of the institute’s Washington chapter. “It is essential in the public in- | terest that buildings erected for the purposes of the Government be archi- tecturally of the highest quality in | plan and design, so that the public | service may be performed with the utmost efficiency and economy, and 80 that the citizens of the communi- ties in which the buildings are lo- cated may take pride in them as| symbols of the Government which | they support.” it was declared in resolutions adopted by the ingtitute’s | Executive Committee. | “The Public Works Committee is authorized to establish, by conference | and co-operation with the Govern- | ment, agencies controlling the de-‘ sign and construction of Government | buildings, and with other organiza- | tions having like objectives, methods Dr. and Mrs. Maurice A. Selinger have purchased the home at 2409 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, N.B.C. T0 PRESENT BRITISH DRAMAS Radio Plays to Be Offered American Listeners on National Chain. B. C. has just been granted exclusive rights to broad- cast in the United States e four of the outstanding radio plays produced in recent months by the British Broadcast- ing Co. The dramas are “Old Bannerm: “Squaring the Circl “The Delayed Drop.” Probably the most unusual is “Squaring the Circle,” which was dapted from a Russian play and ranslated by N. Gould Verschoyle. It is a farce of post-revolutionary Moscow depicting the humor of that period. “Old Bannerman” was first produced by the British Broadcasting Co. last October. It was written by Eden Philpotts, prominent English author. “Pas Seul” is the story of a dancer. “The Delayed Drop” is a melodrama built around a planned murder which goes awry. All four of the plays are to be pre- sented by N. B. C. In the near future. * X X % S SOON as the weather gets warmer, WJSV will stage its regular Saturday night feature, “In the Old Barn Loft,” in a barn in nearby Virginia. Station executives feel that a broadcasting studio does not provide the proper atmosphere | for a barn dance. “In the Old Barn Loft,” inciden- gram tonight after having established its popularity as a sustaining feature. master of ceremonies in this program, which is presented by three “hill billy” by which these agencies may secure | the highest type of architectural | service for their purposes and the most satisfactory results in the fin- | ished structure, and to initiate such legislative changes as may be neces- sary to ensure this end.” The 67 chapters of the institute, located in all parts of the country, will work with the committee in de- vising measures involving the prac- tical, r}nanqml and artistic aspects |ed oncs. “Daylight” bulbs have quite | to Morton Bodfish, executive vice of pub_hc buildings activity, Mr. Rus- | an effect on the wall colors of the |president of the United States Build- sell said. room in which they are used. ing and Loan League. California street, shown above, through the office of Maury & Mohler, realtors. The home contains 10 rooms and 3 baths. —Star Staff Photo. | Million Families to Get Loans. A million families in the United Colored Bulbs Suggested. If the newly painted walls of a| room d t t lor | 2 ? do not appear the desired color | g "y iiging and loan associations v, March 23. _ WRC 930k _ (Copyright, 1835) WMAL 630k WISV 1460k AFTERNOON PROGRAMS attle’s Ensemble Farm and Home Hour Eastern Standard Time. ~ WOL 1310k _ Frederic William Wile Luncheon Music Betty Barthell Morton Bellin 1‘Concer(‘ Miniatures Empire Quartet = 1:00 | 1:15| 1:30 Tommy Tucker's Orch. Words and Music Metropolitan Opera S| “La Boheme™ Metropolitan Opera “La Boheme™ Louis Panico’s Orch. |Tune Tinkers 2:15 | SS> | Mickey of the Circus {Shut in Hour 3200 Meu"?péln‘?n-opeiaii Metropolitan Opera | _2:45 " |Dance Rhythms lBrbBU’yn’Sym’Dhény T . o “« - |Variety Workshop | olitan Opera | Metropolitan Opera Modern Minstrels 3 P 13 1: 1: 1 2 2: 2: 2: 3 3: 3 3: 4: 4: 4: i WS s e D e & SHS&a8 {Little Concert N : [Evening Star Flashes |Evening Rhythms |John Slaughter’s Orch. | 5 Sunday School Lesson California Band J ) i |“Our American Schools” Frederick Voigt o S __Fascinating Facts M. Tl = EVENING PROGRAMS, :00 Sports Review—Music | Jewish Hour "~ Romany Trail :15 |Novelty Strings | “ = Sports Review :30 Martha Mears Sports Parade Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengel 57}Sporu_P‘nrarder __ |Master l%ulldl‘r - ‘M}l_wvn Charles _|Lo 0 (Joseph J. Cotter Moments of Melody Concert Orchestra |Estelle Wentworth 5 |“Whispering” Jack Smith Secretary Hull The Old Gardener |News Spotlight 0 |Romance and Melody | * Dr. O. F. Blackwelder Dinner Ensemble 5_[Rep. Rankin of Miss. [Grace Hayes 3 Rep. Ford of Calif. ‘Whispering Serenaders Sigmund Romberg " |Phil Cook’s Show Shop 0 5 30 | 45 i 00 |Sundown Revue 15 N. B. C. Program 30 Parade of Youth 45 “ o |Nordica Orchestra N oo \Paul Mason's Orch. 5 U ada |Reg Newton, songs |Lonesome Pine Singer - D 53853 5858 Roxy and His Gang _ |Val Erny’s Ensemble e 3 Cent.::l Union Mission T i |Club Habana Orch. 2. = | x s St. Louis Blues Efluy Pons, soprano 0 5 0 5 Dancing Shadows g Songs You Love 0 5 |Halsey Miller’s Orch. |Religion and Labor |Radio City Party “The Gibson Family” National Barn Dance |Himber’s Champions 00 % | National Barn Dance | Minneapolis Symphony |Dancing in Philadelphia | ] “What Would You Do?” | |California_Melodies e i " In the Barn Loft John Slaughter’s Orch. |~ & - Sports Flashes Dance Parade |Edwin Rogers |News Bulletins Dance Music |Let’s Dance Let's Dance = Slumber Music Midnight Reverie |Ray Herbeck's Orch. \Cet’s Dance Dance Music Sign Off 5 0 5 0 5 1.30 5 0 5 0 [ o B et bk k| 1 B 5 | i 1:00 Let’s Dance Sign Off_ |Sign_Off_ MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES. Heart” and “Conversation | “Mignon,” and the “Kaiser Waltz” of Strauss. Roxy and his “gang” on WJSV at 8 will honor Vincent Youmans, com- poser. The major portion of ‘he pro- gram will be devoted to a review of Youmans' compositions. World trade and recovery will be Secret discussed by Secretary of State Hull | Piece.” over WMAL at 7:15. This will be the| WMAL will broadcast at 9 the first first of a series of discussions of world | of a series of new Radio City Parties, trade problems arranged by the World | featuring Ray Noble and his orchestra, i | Peg LaCentra und Bob Lawrence. Trade Foundation and the National Sigmund Romberg will introduce Advisory Council on Radio in Edu- | several of nis latest compositions dur- cation. | ing his program on WRC at 8. Lily Pons, soprano, has included | Light classical numbers dominate two Noel Coward compositions in her the program of the Minneapolis Sym- program over WISV The Cow- | phony Orchestra on WJSV at i0. The ard selections are Follow My | selections include the overture to LONG TERM Mortgage Loans o States are expected to receive loans | PM.|1108 K N Other plaus of financing first mortgage loans avaslable. Monthly Payments of $6-60 on each $1,000 borrowed, include interest and pay oft loan in 20 years. e Interest charged only on unpaid balance of principal. e Amount loaned—up to 60% of appraised value. e Valuable prepayment privie leges. H. L. RUST COMPANY 1001 Fifteenth Street National 8100 bands—the Virginians Quartet, Ernest | Stoneman, Joe Krahling and Ephram Lee, | * * xux | MRS DOROTHY HARPER an- nounces that the District Salon, des Huit Chapeaux et Quarante Femmes, has filed a protest with the when artifical light is turned on, try | for financing new homes and rebuild- | broadcasting companies against chil- substituting blue bulbs in your light- | ing, repainting and other renovations ; dren’s programs based on crime and ing fixtures for the usual white-frost- | during the next 12 months, according | “exciting fiction.” Such programs, |according to a resolution adopted un; “bad” their | their sleep. | * o ox % | A FTER WOR signs off its regular schedule at 1 am. tomorrow, it | will continue until 6 a.m. with & | special “dx"” program. This after-hour broadcast will be dedicated to the | Newark News Radio Club. ouT for children, normal interferes with routine and disturbs DOOR REPAIRS P.M. | Spring Brings Talk of New Porch | Improvements. With the approach of Spring. home 1.45|OWners are turning their thoughts to exterior improvements of their 2:00 | dwellings. Items in the average mod- | ernization project of low cost, but 2:30 | exceptional result, include fence re- | pair or replacement, new porch steps, & porch canopy over the doorway for :15 | use in inclement weather, screened- | 30 | in porches, trellises, garden furniture, | 45 | window boxes, concrete drivewa; 0 1 RENOVIZE . .. , Renovizing th N.W. DISTRICT A557 Dianity your home. Phone _**Eberl; Hriothe [BETT ZEL O Spring Showing in 16th St. Heights e 1347 o Rittenhouse St. N.W. Open 9 AM. to 9 P.M. Beautifully Furnished See this handsome new home today ... 6 rooms ... 2 fireplaces ... front and rear stairways . . . Sg parquetry floors . . . 2 buutifufblths + « « mod- X) ern kitchen . . . cedar storage closets ... beamed ceiling recreation room with paneled walls, bar and fireplace . . . weather- 9 stripped and screened . . . large lot . . . high eleva- tion. i Only $8,950 N.W.. turn right on Sheridan § o St.. to Riftenhouse St.. and left 0 nomes. Drive out 16th St. | | Tower Bldr. DL 3100 113 Genbrook Road, Bethesda, Md. $8,450.00 This idea] suburban residence. complete with screens. weather-strippins. electyle relrigration. i & value you cennol afford b are three delightful and shower. floored attic, porch, dining room, Living_ room A kitchen, pantry and buili-in garage. iss. drooms. compietely thed bath with tub 14x28, with open fireplace and side We Urge Your Inspection Today and Tomorrow To reach: Out Wisconsin Ave., Bethest follow trolley line past Benk of 20 Glenbrook Road, turn right ome-half block to property. -~ EDW. H. JONES & CO., Inc. 5520 Conn. Ave. Cleve. 2300 SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1935. drals is small, but we live with and suffer every day the inconvenient, une tally, will become a sponsored pro- | Bill Bivens, WJSV announcer, is the | imously by the organization, is | LACK OF DECENT BUILDINGS CITED Harvard Professor Says Usefulness Must Guide Architect. The United States is “pitifully undersupplied with decent buildings,” Charles W. Killam, professor of archi- tecture in Harvard University, de- clares in a statement made public by the American Institute of Architects. Usefulness as well as art must guide architects of today, says Prof. Killam, holding that one masterpiece cannot atone for a million shacks. Those who assert that the creation of great architecture is the first duty of the architect do not cover the whole ground, Prof. Killam points out in urging the architectural profession to face the task of meeting social needs. ““Most of our buildings are so in- efficiently and uneconomically planned and built that we cannot afford to live, do business, recreate or worship in worthy surroundings,” he con- tinues. “The homes of nine-tenths of our people lack comforts. They are unbeautiful if not ugly; they are unkempt inside and about, often in- sanitary and unsafe. Schools Out-of-Date. 1 alf of our school buildings are | out-of-date, musty, poorly lighted, not entirely safe. Our churches are often the largest and ugliest buildings in our villages, less dignified than our pumping stations. “Consider the drab and desolate domiciles which disgrace the country- side in the Middle West, for instance. Or consider the Eastern States. I have toured 10 of the Northeastern States from the Virginias to Maine. A half-dozen old houses in Alexandria or a dozen manors in the whole State of Virginia cannot redeem the city or | | the State. | “It gets better as you leave Penn- | sylvania and drive toward Maine.| | Litchfield, Lyme, Farmington, Con- | | cord, Cohasset, Camden and Wiscas- set show what might be; what should |be. In another way, the tenement | | house of the Amalgamated Clothing | Workers on Grand street, New York, contrasted with its slum surroundings, | Iuhows one way out for some of our | people. [ Room for Talents. | “If architects say that they can- not improve these conditions: that| | most of the smaller buildings must be | designed by carpenters and many of | | the larger buildings by contractors, engineers, or realtors, they are throw- ing away a tremendous opportunity. | Architects should be most interested | in the broadest, most socially useful | function of the architect. The pro- fession has room for all kinds of abil- ities, talents and genius, and its fleld | should cover, as nearly as practicable, all the shelters of mankind. “To accomplish this architects must | do, and do well, small buildings and large; *must meet the manifold needs | | of housing, agriculture, industry, edu- | | cation, recreation and religion. The | idem:nd for monuments and cathe-| economical and ugly buildings. Most of them must be utilitarian and eco- nomical. That in itself has its chal- lenge.” o Architects must avold “overcoating structures in smart but ephemeral fashions,” Prof. Killam warns in dis- cussing design in its relation to con- struction. Vehicle makers, he observes, progress toward & rational use of forms and materials more rapidly in a dec- ade than architects do in a century. Likes Ornament and Coler. “Architecture cannot flourish as a mysterious art to be appreciated only Dby its practitioners. It cannot justify itself to the ignorant or prejudiced layman, but it must justify itself to the intelligent-'ayman. Such a lay- man can understand a wall, a roof, & wooden post, a brick pier, a stone or reinforced concerte column. He can understand a lintel and an arch. He likes ornament and color better thdn bareness, and is glad to see these structural elements enriched in re- Hef or color. “I doubt if he understands or ap- preciates the larger projections, pilas- ters, buttresses, pinnacles, wings, claws and what not with which some modernists thicken and overload the curtain walls of our skeleton build- ings, wasting ground area and com- plicating the steel frame. It may be said that the layman is tired of Gothic buttresses and classic cornices, but I wonder if he admires any more the vertical projections like feeble and useless buttresses which the modern- ist uses, and which run up the front A Bargain The Forest Section of Chevy Chase, Md. A Great Bargain 121 Leland St. 9,350 A large, six-room home on a lot 215 ft. deep with beautiful trees. This home has every modern convenience, including most moderp kitchen and auto- matic refrigeration, and the entire house is in new condi- tion. The bath is beauti- ful; there is a full attic, open fireplace and garage. Can Be Purchased on Terms Open Saturday and Sunday All Day Phillips & Canby, Inc. Na. 4600 Investment Bldg. | hed, 1512 K St. N.W. 811 Tuckerman St. N.W. $6,950.00 One Bieek FromiCer Linel s An Outstanding Value OPEN 9 TO 9 HARRY WARDMAN, INC. Six Rooms, Garage Di. 3830 Two Fine Homes— Exceptional Values REAL ESTATE. and disappear over the parapet like straps on & trunk. “Some of the structural elements must be concealed for fire protection, others for greater convenience, com- fort or elegance, but architects often conceal the structural facts with un- | _ . : District Director of F. H. A. to called-for projections, and then the intelligent layman can no longer fol- low us: We have to explain too much. He does not see why we should waste his money covering up the bones of & twentieth century structure to make it look like a fifteenth century shell or to make it look like the latest ex- periment in the international style.” SALVATION ARMY LEADER TO SPEA Commisioner Alexander Damon, nationally known organizer and leader, long identified with the Salvation Army activities, will be the speaker on the Federal Housing Administra- tion radio program at 12:15 pm. tomorrow. His subject will be “Wha Home Means to Me.” This program will be heard from | coast to coast on the red network of the National Broadcasting Co. It is one of a series of 26 programs donated to the better housing program by the General Electric Co. WoobDwWARD O™U™F o G Sresevs There is \REALTORS WILL HEAR GILCHRIST TUESDAY Speak on “Home Building and Financing.” Joseph Karl Gilchrist, director of Federal Housing Administration ac- tivities in the District, will address the Washington Real Estate Board on | “Home Building and Financing” next | Tuesday at 3 pm. in the board's o(- | fices, 1417 K street. ‘The meeting has been called by A. | N. Miller, chairman of the Home Builders' Committee of the board Gilchrist will tell of the progress | toward revival of home building in | Washington made under the mutual | mortgage insurance program of F. |H. A H. A. Brooks, commercial manage: | of the Potomac Electric Power Co.. | will speak before the Property Man- agement Committee of the board next | Thursday afternoon at 3. 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Attics Insulated. - Custom-made Draperies. Tailor-made Slip Covers. Custom-made Window and Porch Awnings. Furniture Refinished. Interior Painting and into Exterior Pm;ninm Overhead Garage Doors. Roofing and Re-siding. MANUFACTURING Drvision Orrick, Sevents Firoon. Mail the Coupon Below for This Free Book Here are two outstanding opportunities i 1 v Heights. Both of these properties are offered at prices and on terms that may never be duplicated in this fine community. INSPECT TODAY 4409 Klingle St. N.W. This is & cozy bungalow, 5 rooms and inclosed sleeping porch, with'exception- ally nice landscaping—just right for the newlywed or small family. 4519 Klingle St. N.W. 8 rooms, 3 baths, servant’s room and bath, two-car garage, landscaped grounds, elevation, beautiful view. House recently re-conditioned throughout and mod- ernly equipped with oil heat, Prigidaire, new gas range. Priced for quick sale. W.C. & A. N. 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