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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...
...face of it, Marienbad tells the story of a seduction-Resnais prefers to call it a "persuasion"-that transpires in what Robbe-Grillet calls "a grand hotel, a sort of international palace, immense, baroque, with a decor at once sumptuous and icy: a universe of columns, marbles, gilded panels, statues, servants in rigid attitudes; a clientele rich, polished, anonymous, unemployed. Seriously but without passion they play society's inevitable games-cards, dancing, vacant conversation, pistol-shooting. Inside this closed and stifling world, people and things alike seem caught in an enchantment.'' Among the enchanted inhabitants...
Proud of her tasteful changes in the White House decor, Jackie led a 45-man CBS crew (trailed by two tons of electronic equipment) through a day-long White House exploration; filmed last week, the guided tour will be presented on television next month. With a tiny microphone and transmitter hidden under her blouse, Jackie commented on everything from the curator's basement headquarters to the Lincoln Bedroom upstairs. So skilled was her performance that only one retake was ordered-and that simply because one of the television cameras had gone out of whack...