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...President Jefferson Davis, onetime (1853-57) U.S. Secretary of War, was gathering dust in a storage room in the lower depths of the Pentagon, Florida's Democratic Congressman Robert Sikes took umbrage. "Old Jeff," cried he, "shouldn't be banned to the basement." Once part of the decor in the Defense Secretary's office, Old Jeff's portrait was rehung last week, upstairs in a prominent spot on the wall of an endless Pentagon hall. Still unknown: the identity of the carpetbagger who had kicked Jeff Davis downstairs...
Mount Auburn 47, Cambridge's newest coffee house, opened last Monday. Located next door to Harry's Arcade, it violates established traditions for Cambridge coffee house decor: it is large, well-lit, and comfortable...
Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
...small and experimental production, Director Charles Mee has misused and exaggerated Brecht's refreshing approach to stagecraft to such an extent that it seriously detracts from the play. Indeed, Brecht's ideas about "antitheatricality" must be used dramatically, not as an excuse not to sweep the stage. The creamy decor of the bare Agassiz stage with a vista to the light board tends to distract the eye and the attention, rather than to accent the action. The idea of using masque-like make-up is bright and fresh, but the make-up should be carefully and artfully applied...
Last week, nearly 18 years after the museum's doors had been closed by war, they were at last reopened. In the rebuilt interior, only one item of decor was salvaged from the original structure: the gold-and-white great portal of the main Rubens room (see cut). A stream of proud Münchners flooded every gallery in the building. They noted such improvements as the overhead skylights and lighting, and walls tapestried with ivory silk. Hanging against them with vibrant life were 800 paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four...