In Paris, in the city to which people have come for centuries when they wished to create beauty or to have it admired, where even a roly-poly pastry cook may wear a long tie and the title of the proudest profession, Ralph Adams Cram, famed U. S. architect, last week addressed the American Club: "The arts of the world are suffering an eclipse," said Architect Cram. "Creative music has almost ceased. Painting has fallen back and sculpture is in almost the same condition." Soon Architect Cram qualified this lugubrious assertion: "All the arts...
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