Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-27
HOT DOG STANDS
COMPETITION KEEN
Plans for Many Architectural
Oddities Submitted In
$4,000 Prize Contest.
BY Consolidated rrrss.

BY Consolidated rrrss.
NEW YORK, February 27.--Like the
Justly celebrated wildtirc. the reforma-
ton of the hot dog stand continues to
sweep not only our own great country
but also Canada and points around the
border of our new friend, Mexico, Lit
tie did the Art Center of New York
wot. when four short weeks ago II
opened that $4,000 competition for the
most artistic hot dog house, what n
bewildering variety of art can encom-
pass the erstwhile humble wienle.
The competition committee. of which
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller. jr., and the
Adolf GObel estate are members. had
no notion there was 50 much or SO
many kinds of art IL all the world, 10
say nothing of just North America.
Gothic, Tudor. and so on. they knew
about: the conventional art forms were
as familiar TO them as gas at - cents
or whatever it is now. or the inSideS OF
the frankfurter i'll which the Gobel
estate SpecializeS But the committee
had never heard of the late Canadian
era. the Mexican border renaissance or
the Californian whangdlnguS period.
And small blame to the committee, for
these epochs sprang into being within
the current month.
When the hot dog strayS among the
frozen wastes of Canada. when 1t
prowlS along the banks OF the RIO
Grande. and. oh, boy. when it is wall
loped Just once by the climate Of Cali
fornia what 4 pup palace 1t turns out
to be going to live in!
Increased Popularity Seen.
II some of the architectural sugges-
tons thus far received are adopted.
the frankfurter will leap from hovel
TO hotel from lcan-to TO igloo. from
pup tent TO pagoda, from kennel to
Kremlin and from obscurity to futurlty
in one ecstatic bound Indeed. so many
suggestions and so many entreateS lor
a look at these suggestions are rolilhg
in at the art center that the COM
mittee isn't sure 1t can distribute inc
prize plans free on request: 1t may be
OBLIGED instead to charge a small fee
the least possible fee which it can man
age. But what's a small fee between
dog fanciers when the housing problem
Of the popular pet Is SO acute?
1t is evident right now that when the
contest ends on March ID the hot cog
will embark Upon new career anna
surroundings BETTING its Importance.
The contest committee hopes TO put
into existence ten or a dozen new
types Of stands OF course. no o!hclal
opinion has yet been pronounced upon
the doggy design so far received But
our own heart will falter as well as
the hearts of millions OF not dog con.
noissuers If the winning designs do not
inclnde some Of those flights Of imag-
nation which have already arrived 70
gladden. the Art Center.
AS might be expected the designs
submitted for the sake OF art ana OF
the slices into which that $4,000 is TO
be divided, range as widely as from
Botticelli TO Batik or from Boston 10
Bingville and how. There Is the early
English Ye lime on the Spanish tran
Of a Middle West Scandinavian suburb
with Ye Towne Crier and Ye Antickc
Signe indicating Ye Architecture!
Doege's delyte. You haven't lived III
YOU have gnawed hot dog amid sucn
scenery. There IS an ark repiete win
little stuffed animals which nod thcli
heads-no they don't shake ,em-aho
il YOU have a CLINT OF beauty IN your
soul you'll purchase your hot dogs here
or elsewhere.
Other Architectural Oddities.
Well. and there's an ice cream cone;
vou'ye no idea! And an Ice cream
freezer. two stories high with handle
that. thanks TO art and electricity. VIII
revolye unto perpetuity. There's a
iuicv appea! all its own in the stand
shaped like an orange or lemon; or
cliff dwelling so realistic that you look
for neolithic terriers, while a block
house OF logs looms with enough men
ace TO repel any Indian.
The single motif lacking 10 date Is the
Egyptian. which is strange when you re-
feet that Egype is the artistic mother
OF the hot dog Egypt has the SAND
with which the hot dog Is often intl-
mately associated; II has the inscrut-
able sphinx whose expression is ire
ouently repeated on the countenance OF
the hot dog consumer: 1t has dog as
a deity and It has Tut-ankh-Am the
martyr King buried amid dog carved
furniture. Tut-ankh-Amen Is believed
10 have died OF an obscure digestive
disorder
ScadS Of unornate designs have also
reached the Art Center. designs simple
and satisfactory as "A hot dog itself. But
whether IN the future We get our hot
dogs amid simplicity or enpufpied
spiender, the contest has thus early
proved one thing The hand that
paints the lily isn't runner-up 10 the
hand that decks the dog