To the Editor of the "Norta Cuina Dany News"
Sm,—What a refreshing and pleasant change it is from the ever-recurring letters from war-mongers and amateur politicians to find letters to the Editor about such peaceful and delightful subjects as. architecture and architects, Whether Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, 15 or is not a great man?
If he is, whether he would have been if architecture had been on the curriculum of American universities in his student days?
1s a qualified architect any better than Tom, Dick and Harry? 15 architectural tradition to be considered or is the lack of knowledge of the past an asset? AN very stimulating, interesting and controversial, particularly if read in bed before break-test "Well Behaved "Tykes"
To the Editor of the t "Norta Cuna Dary News"
Sir,—What's the matter with INNIS-TAL—has he gone soft like most of us in Shanghai? Why "painlessly"—personally, the more painful the destruction of Lire WinLzs and their ilk, the more satisfied I would be, Or couldn't we put them in a Home before they give more of us Let our eminent American-trained colleague who praises Mr. Lloyd Wright so highly rest assured that English architects, despite his suggestion to the contrary, are quite capable of recognizing a great contemporary, For that he certainly Art, at any rate, has no national boundaries, we are able to judge a man by his work, leaving the notionalist and patriot to the limitations of their narrow horizons, Shanghai, Nov. 20.
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