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...Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...
Then, in New York, an eccentric old millionaire decided to give 75% of his fabulous collection of Italian art, valued conservatively at $25 million, to the gallery. While Samuel Henry Kress stripped his warehouses and the walls of his Fifth Avenue penthouse of their treasures, the gallery's decorators hastily revised their plans to provide a fitting decor for the new acquisitions. President Franklin Roosevelt wrote a grateful letter to Kress, and when the National Gallery opened, comfortably furnished with masterpieces, it was a sensation...
...night; each of the 450 rooms has air conditioning, TV, and imported marble baths. Outside the hotel is a 50-by-90-ft., palm-shaded swimming pool; inside, the hotel has a Bali Room restaurant and nightclub, where everything from walls to waiters is tricked out in Balinese decor; a Nordic Room studded with 25,000 pearl-like shells, a Versailles Room for private banquets, where a fountain can be made to spray champagne instead of water...
...Roller Skates. As her Beekman Place decor suggests, Auntie Mame goes through phases like revolving 'doors. In 1929, when orphaned ten-year-old Pat is put in her flamboyant care, Auntie is in her Japanese phase. Child-rearing brings out her progressive education phase. Little Pat is enrolled in a "divine new school that a friend of mine is starting. Coeducational and completely revolutionary. All classes are held in the nude under ultra violet ray. Not a repression left after the first semester." Pat is just working up his first good tan when the shocked male trustee...
...Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...