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With the help of his set designer and choreographers, director Ken Kanter has made everything go. It seems incredible that the handkerchief stage of Leverett should represent a steamship, but Michael Herter's set offers Cunard luxury -- a gangway, two decks, three staterooms. The direction of Kanter and his choreographers -- Michael Ricardo, Lise Landis and Michael Collapy -- creates out of the small cast the impression of an extravaganza; their next goal should be precision...
...CUNARD WHITE STAR QUADRUPLE-SCREW LINER QUEEN MARY 340 pages. New York Graphic Society. $19.95. A facsimile reprint of The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder souvenir edition, which was first published in 1936 to commemorate the maiden run of Britain's most beloved seagoing queen. Staggering in its detail: deck plans, photographs and descriptions of machinery, interiors of accommodations. A brief, highly literate biography carries the great liner through World War II service as a troop transport (it accidentally rammed and sank a British cruiser in 1942), and into its sad second life as a tourist attraction in Long...
...Queens of the Cunard Line used to epitomize royalty almost as much as the majesties that they were named for. Launched in 1968, the Queen Elizabeth 2 was never as regal as the old Queen Mary (now a dry-docked tourist attraction in Long Beach, Calif.) or the first Queen Elizabeth (which sank outside Hong Kong harbor last January, the victim of suspected arson). Still, the Q.E. 2 retained, in its original design, at least some of the proud aura of the days when Britannia ruled the waves. But a $4½ million face-lifting, unveiled last week, seems...
Added Lumps. Cunard ordered the changes to increase both passenger revenues and on-board spending, particularly by Americans. Nonetheless, the facelift, which was devised by a Florida kitchen-supply firm, has made Britain's designing establishment a bit seasick. Dennis Lennon, who was chiefly responsible for the original interior design of the ship, quit after two weeks on the new project. "It was a national ship," he explained. "It wasn't something to play around with and turn into a honky-tonk." James Gardner, the principal exterior designer of the original, said of the altered superstructure: "We tried...
...Cunard Line, which expects the alterations to help increase the Q.E.2's profits by 50%, seems prepared to weather the storm. But even the line's chairman, Victor Matthews, looked a little queasy after he toured the liner a few hours before it was due to depart Southampton for New York. "This is a disaster," he said, having peered through half-painted cabins with naked light bulbs hanging from their sockets and cables strewn across the floors. "The ship looks as though a bomb has hit it." The Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen...