It is not because we consider the ballroom as the chef docuvre of the architects and_artists that we have left it to the ast, but because it is a fitting rounding off of the general description "we have attempted, and the climax to all that has gone before, Contrarily enough this climax does not gather to itself all the good qualities of what we have already described, but branches off into entirely now paths, depend on no roccocco effects, but gathers into itself all the qualities of colour and space in a truly remarkable manner. Imagino an oval room—for the sake of the dancers, we must state that the floor is' of maple set on cantilever springs—surrounded at intervals with gold pilasters, supporting at intervals a dado in multi-coloured gold, and spaced with effective bas-reliefs. Imagine this sct off with curtains of an intricate shade of greenish blue, with the orchestra platform flanked by pillars of a most intriguing shade of red. 'Then in the mind set around the room at suitable intervals flambeau on pillars of vermilion picked out in black and gold, and you have some impression of' the "dignified and striking room in which the members of the Cercle Sportif Francais will dance in the future, beneath a sun-burst of reddish brown. Daring? Of course it is, Different? That surely what was intended, and with all its daring and difference it will form a most brilliant setting for many a delightful social function.
Uiilitarian But Needful We have overlooked the usual offices, Kitchens and- the like, the refrigerator system which conveys cold to all the necessary parts of the the golden Like Lady Olivia we have dealt tions and like her, now, must proceed to deal with other matters.
1 indies And Other responsible for this truly remark-The youth of the two architects 1
able building is one of the things which strikes one most in considering the porsonnel_ through whose efforts so delightful a building was made possible. M.A. Leonard and M. P. Veysoyre are 384 and 20 years respectively. The former has been in Shanghai since
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