New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-12
WILD "CUBEAST" ROARS
AS ARCHITECTS SMOKE
Contests of Speed and Skill
Arouse Genius to Its Highest
Pitch of Enthusiasm.
HAT BOY AS A CRITIC
plans for Ideal Office Start
Greatest Discussion as Judges
Are Puzzled to Find
Top and Bottom.

Are Puzzled to Find
Top and Bottom.
The chief impression gained at the an
rual smoker Of the Architectural League
in its rooms last night was that archi-
,ccts. sculptors and painters have legs
and torsos as vigorous as their hands and
brains. For all did their stunts at top
rotch speed and each man did each stunt
with every part Of him that was NOV
able
Around the big room, in the Students
1edcue Building. at No 215 West 57th
street. there were paintings perpetrated
nv students on was OF The Cubeast,'
eorce looking animal Of some sort who
looked a. if he were cornered; another
was labelled Fear" and represented peo-
Mo oalmosD who were crawling upon
,bsir stomachs across a desolate field,
,,brc another was called "Fleas Protect
inc Their Young picturins splotches of
,od Green. yellow and orange paint upon
which was painted a horde OF winged
spots
Ru, the main occasions We're the con
,csts First. there were squads of archl-
,ects. topnotchers too, who had some as
sistants aid them in making plans for an
ideal architects Office Dom Barner.
Henry Hornbostel. Bertram Goodhue and
Robert n Kohn each had charge OF
sauad which. AT 4 given signal. set upon
their table and with pencils. pens. cray
ons. r SQUARES and other architecture.
things started ont TO draw up plans for
IAN ideal architects Office In thirty
SIX minutes each had finished its work.
Cass Gilbert. Seth Low. McGruar Ed
wards and the coat room boy, We're
elected JUDGES Edwards was the chair
man. and every now and then ne had to
ask If Che plans We're exhibited right
side uu-most Of the time they We're not
and nobody knew the difference.
Barber Wins a Prize.
The FIRST plans drawn I'm thirtv-siN min
utes hy Robert d. KohH. displayed. ~
German art nouveau style. an sorts OF
comforts for the architects Office. such
as great Italian marble bath. construct
Oh upon a wide lawn I'm which the helm
we're go wash the blue prints. The dark
room was surrounded upon all sides hy
glass. and the "sun room" had $40 VIM
COWS. Otherwise il was an rish; and
loudly arulaudad. The second set Of
i'ars arranged 10Y a private office for
tHe architect iu "a padded cell a private
raHe. FOR the craftsman automobiles,
s-G Grand entrance for the b'ue print
hry, .Hat let directly 20 Russian. Turkish
rd E-rIuan baths After objections py
.v-r' body Edwards awarded the prize u
Do.r Barber I'm response he said. As
r no'f competitor . have only 10 thank
El2.rd--ard God th2t re was there"
taI then came the sculptors. Sur-
rolndcd tv about three hundred OF their
fellow league members. they approached
Her Jumps OF clay .n perfect frenzy
FoI eighteen minutes there was no sound
.r tho room brt am .ucessanf smash sian
and raet ~ hare hands AGAINST We. CLAY
and -ter. "a fudoa shouted ont tho nous
that Karl Rit,er had won tho oovet4d lead
medal
n. Ma,,;o- +b. S+vle
Inc Sc'Ipi"is were OIL rSsed in me APP
TAM" 'ha"'eIs t""l si'pp'u over 'N'
nsnt ear moving '.a'h SILK ues ana
loose fIehcn peasant h.PuSeS Oh "iue- III
ueT mouths were io"s clay pipes
h1en}' 'heN We're picturesque
inc PAINTERS came HeN' ana were .'''
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each team sat back upon their Launches
and called II a picture. The only trouble
that followed the PAINTINGS was the in
sisterce upon the part Of the audience
that the painters turn their pictures up
side down. 50 that some sort Of an idea
~ Tho subject be gained Long after the
pictures had been finished the three models
whose architecture had slipped down a
yard or severe still standing IN their
original positions. Somebody awakened