Skyscraper developed by Louis Henry Sullivan, Irish-French-German ... Fanueil Hall, Boston, designed by John Smibert, Scot ... Vieux Carrè, New Orleans, laid out by Adrien de Pauger, French ... foremost architect in stone was Henry Richardson, English ... Frank Lloyd Wright, Welsh, harmonized buildings with surroundings ... St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, built by Joseph Zvak, Czech ... prominent naval architect is Wm. Hovgaard, Dane.
City planning by Eliel Saarinen, Finn ... Bertram Goodhue, Scot-English, developed and refined Gothic in public buildings ... Folger Library and Pan-American Building in Washington by Paul Cret, Belgian ... banks and office buildings by Stephen Voorhees, Netherlander ... church architecture by Ralph Cram, German, and Charles Maginnis, Irish.
Motion Pictures
Outstanding motion-picture stars: Antonio Moreno, Spaniard ... Luise Rainer, Austrian ... Charles Laughton and Ronald Colman, English ... Francis Lederer, Czech ... Jean Hersholt, Dane ... Pola Negri, Pole ... Anna Sten, Ukrainian ... Laura La Plante, Yugoslav.
Leading producers: Mayer, Lasky, Warner, Russian Jews, and Goldwyn, Polish Jew ... pioneers of industry were D. W. Griffith, Welsh, Zukor and Fox, Hungarian Jews, and Loew, German Jew ... technique of cinematography modernized by Vorkepic, Yugoslav.
Theatre
Pioneer of modern American theatre, Augustin Daly, Irish ... geniuses of the theatre include Belasco, Portuguese Jew; Frohmans, Shuberts, Selwyn, Warfield, Hammerstein, German Jews, and Nazimova, Russian Jew ... John Drew, Irish ... Richard Mansfield, Julia Marlowe, and Barrymores, English ... Paul Robeson, Negro ... the magician, Houdini, Hungarian.
Journalism
New York Weekly Journal founded by Peter Zenger, German, in 1733 ... New York Tribune founded by Horace Greeley, Scotch-Irish ... publisher of St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York World was Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian Jew ... first great newspaper syndicate established by S. S. McClure, Irish ... magazine, famous as a militant muckraker founded by P. F. Collier, Irish.