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Show Newest Radio Cabinets Are Smartly Designed Have you seen the new radios? They are housed in such smartly-styled, smartly-styled, well made cabinets that they are an asset to the furnishings of any room. Progress in cabinet design has been rapid during the last few years. Before that time there was a period when it was practically impossible to get a radio in a moderately sized case. It was out size or nothing. Those were the days, too, of the huge, overstuffed couches and elephantine ele-phantine lounge chairs. Now they have made way for merchandise of better lines. One well known manufacturer of radios is following traditional furniture furni-ture designs in a fall showing. Four particularly good looking models are made in the style of Queen Anne Sheraton, Hepplewhite, and in the Regency manner. All are provided with automatic record changing devices. de-vices. The Queen Anne radio is handsomely hand-somely simple and looks like a highboy. high-boy. Its brass drawer pulls increase in-crease the illusion, as does the lovely shell carving just below the top. The legs are cabriole with shell carving on the knee, and spade feet Because of its colonial character, this model has been called the Williamsburg Wil-liamsburg and is suggested for rooms that follow the popular Williamsburg Wil-liamsburg trend. Of African and Honduras mahogany, it is 42 inches high, 26 inches wide, and has a depth of 17 inches. It has a drawer, useful for storing records. |