Word: decorations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with $3,000 in savings, Jahn leased a run-down Munich tavern, dressed it up with Vienna woods decor and a resoundingly fowl menu. He figured that hearty-eating Germans-who considered barbecued chicken quite a delicacy and were willing to pay $3 to $4 for a whole one at a festival like Munich's frothy Oktoberfest-would buy it every day if it were cheaper. To keep his own costs down, Jahn bicycled to the Munich poultry market every morning, haggled for bargains, pedaled back to the restaurant with a load of chicken. His specialty: half a roast...
Earth was a cylindar, like Edison's first records incised and not the blue plate special of today, air was also mist and dew and fog, immersed chords decor not unlike wallpaper, elemental, held its sway...
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: No. 4 in a series of ten new plays: A Terror Since September by Chicago Engineer R. C. Lesser, whose blueprints will be used as decor in this psychological drama...
...pull off this daring gamble-which so far has cost Seibu $8,000,000-Tsutsumi is relying on a retailing formula that blends East and West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan...
William and Jean Eckart designed the extremely handsome settings. Since the cast includes three Rosepettles, Commodore Rosabove, Rosalie, and Rosalinda the fish--and, for all I know, Jonathan may be keeping a "Rosebud" sled in his closet--it is no surprise that the chief color of the decor (and of some of the costumes) is rose, with which two pieces of orange-upholstered furniture are delightfully inharmonious. And Thomas Skelton's lighting, properly non-realistic, is stunning...