American Structure to Be Simplified Washington, Jan. 2.
'A plan to speed up construction of the new American Consulate-Ger feral at Shanghai was announced today by the Department of State.
The Treasury Department would revise the present plans for the build-Which is lo cost $750,000, includ:
the furnishings, by simplifying the structure. The revised plan would call for the building to be constructed in purely American style of architecture, eliminating two towers called for in previous plans. The elimination of the two towers would provide more room, the nouncement declared—Uniled Press. opportunity, The concerted numbers were all well done and showed signs of careful rehearsal. The Gavotte was the best of all—perfeetly phrased and timed by its five parlleipants—and the Cachucha wag given with sprightly fervour. The quintet in the First Act, wherein the impossibility of "straightening out fife's tangled skein" Is argued, was another performance greatly to the audience's last, The movements of the chorus were not always well-conceived. The grouping was at times raxged with the result that pictures were blurred =a little closer attention to stage-management would obviate that defect. There remains:
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