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USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…Celebrating Retro Style With an Art Deco Lecture & a Screening of Skyscraper Souls
Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles team up to embrace the sleek, stylish and long-lasting legacy of the Art Deco era with this in-depth conversation and film screening. The design style had its debut 90 years ago at the Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, when its lines, symmetry and ornate flourishes represented both hope and progress. With her design-minded lecture, author and psychologist Karen Greene will explore the style’s origins. She’ll discuss her new book Art Deco Mailboxes, which examines deco themes and why they resonated so powerfully in the era between the two World Wars. You’ll learn all about the striking symbols used in Art Deco and find out how they impacted the USPS and the world of telecommunications. After the lecture, you’ll see a screening of Skyscraper Souls, a 1932 melodrama set in an Art Deco tower of power and wealth. The film follows a ruthless financier who will crush anyone in his path to maintain control of a hundred-story skyscraper. Screen siren Maureen O’Sullivan plays one of the many exploited women in his life in this glossy, sexy soaper, adapted from Faith Baldwin’s novel. This multi-media celebration of early 20th century luxury and modernism takes place at the Egyptian Theatre.
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