Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest rush, as usual, was to "this year's hotel": the $17 million, 475-room Americana, which opened on Dec. 1. A reservation at the Americana at $68 a day for a Lanai (one bedroom, two baths, a living room, a galley kitchen) or $32 a day (meals extra, of course) for one of the ordinary picture-windowed bedrooms was the Miami Beach equivalent of an invitation to the royal enclosure at Ascot...
Built and operated by the Tisch Hotel chain (the Traymore and Ambassador in Atlantic City, NJ.; the Belmont Plaza in Manhattan), the Americana offers such inducements as a huge, cone-shaped $300,000 terrarium in the center of the lobby (filled with orchids and rare fungi) and four restaurants with the help dressed to fit the decor, e.g., waitresses in Rose Marie operetta costumes for the Dominion of Canada Coffee House, waiters in Argentine cowboy pants for the Gaucho Steak House...
Part of the charm of Much Ado About Me is its period-piece Americana. It tells of the last fun Fred Allen had being funny. To the radio years, he brought his nagging instinct for perfectionism. TV he merely lip-serviced waspishly. To Much Ado About Me (finished shortly before his death nine months ago), Allen brought not only the fondness of his memories, but the rueful tone and the hint of deri sion that, years before, led him to write...
...Amos 'n' Andy, Graham MacNamee and the first short-wave relay from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie and the NBC staff chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs...
...celebrate it all, NBC kept Cadillac motorcades flowing between the airport and the Americana until they filled its 475 rooms with some 700 guests, including so many celebrities that oglers hardly had eyes for the lobby's live orchids, alligators and waterfalls. By the time Robert Sarnoff got to the main business, his convention speech, the clock ticked toward midnight, Gina was distractingly cuddling with her husband at one of the main tables, and a spectator was heard to grumble, "Here comes the late late speech...