Part 11 (2/2)

We were part of the crowd that swept to the Court of the Universe, never so splendid as at night, with the coluures shi+ning fro the court itself we stood at the end of one of the corridors and looked down Great drops of light hung on the colu very artistic and unusual there,” the architect re just like it has ever been done before It suggests the tongues of fire mentioned in the Scripture that descended fro froreat candles, glowing frolobe on top ”They're practically the sole hts arejust like these shafts has ever been tried in an Exposition or anywhere else It's a novel Expositional effect Some people don't like it; but old that first drew the olden color had been used hout the Exposition it would have helped a lot Guerin gets it at night by h the s and Faville gets it in the light behind those wonderful doorways of his that haven't been praised half as es lured us along the di on an even ht Once within the court we found ourselves under the spell of Mullgardt's genius The architecture, the cauldrons sending out pink stea serpents, the torches on the tower, the warreat ecclesiastical stars, brilliant with electricity, all carried out the idea of the earth, cast off by the sun

In the entrance court we found the effects lessemphasized the refinement of the court, the rich delicacy of the ornao down into history for this contribution to the Exposition,” said the architect ”He has shown that originality is still possible in architecture”

In the Court of the Four Seasons atched the E the architecture into a roups of the seasons shone froreen ”When Ryan pro the source of the light be seen, it was thought by the people it couldn't be done” For a long tioon where the sere silently floating and, and the Palace of Fine Arts was reproduced with a deeper mystery Noe could feel the relation between the colonnade and Gerome's chariot race ”It would please Geronificent a conception,”

said the architect ”And if Boecklin could see this vision and hear that his Island of the Dead had started Maybeck's hted at the sa of the influences operating in art he would see that his contribution did not in any way detract froinality

Down the centuriesone another and, in this way, adding to the sum of wisdom and beauty in the world Now and then, as in this instance, we can plainly see the influences at work Behind Boecklin and Gero those two pictures, inspirations froether And this palace will doubtless inspire many another noble conception”

”When we apply that thought to the Exposition as a whole,” I said, ”we can see what a big influence it is likely to have on the art of the country”

”It has undoubtedly had a big influence already, even though weThe very interest the Exposition has, aroused in the people that co productive”

Seeing the Lights Fade

We went over to the South Gardens to see the lights change on the Tower of Jewels, passing the half-do the background They were still robing the tower in pure white, and the hundred thousand pieces of Austrian cut glass were shi+ those jewels fastened on the orna So blown off It took pretty expert acrobatic work to hang the jewels out on the extrelowed into red The tower itself seemed to become thinner and finer in outline

”There are people who don't like this color,” said the architect ”It's fashi+onable nowadays to feel a prejudice against red But it is one of the reatest favorites, associated with fire and with flowers To ht seemed to burn from a fire inside See how it tends to elirace of line in the upper tiers, like folded wings With just a few eliminations the i”

Presently the lights in the toent out altogether The four Italian towers also grew diered We wished to see this city of dohts at all, except for those that were kept burning to meet the requirements of the law

For an hour we roamed about the deserted place Here and there ould roup of people from some indoor festivity

The material had taken on a finer quality It looked like stone

Wonderful as the Exposition was by day and in the evening, it was far ine the scene as a city, with the inhabitants asleep in their beds But just what kind of city it was I could not ht to the architect, he said:

”Have you ever seen David Roberts' big illustrated volumes, 'Travels in the Holy Land'? If you haven't, look them up Then you will see what kind of a city this city is It's a city of Palestine It's Jerusaleht to be Noted by Day

The South Gardens