Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls overlooking the city, its mirrored stage, its color organ which plays a design on the ceiling, its revolving dance floor which goes two speeds in each direction...
Most amusing to today's public was a design of a Pullman car which Mr. Brady liked to pin on his underwear. Almost two inches long were his freight and passenger car cuff links. A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond...
While it is true that Hood made the original design for the Tribune Tower, Howells rendered invaluable service in connection with the project. It is not true that the design was submitted from the office of John Mead Howells. The design was submitted in the name of John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood, associate architects. It is not true that Hood had to turn over $40,000 of the prize money to Howells. The arrangement was for an equal division...
...after six years in the business, Albert Richard Johnson has been called "the father of musical comedy design." Son of an agricultural expert and professional Russian observer named Albert Aaron Johnson (Russia at Work, The Soviet Union at Work, Progress in the Soviet Union), he knew a little about drafting when he came to Manhattan from Florida to study with Norman Bel Geddes. He learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office...
...Crowd was the next Johnson job. In 1931 he was employed on The Band Wagon. His merry-go-round scene and the Pare Monceau set used a two-way revolving stage for the first time. His colors were strong, but not loud, and his grasp of scenic design was flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling...