Word: steamboat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buster Keaton Film Festival, including The General, Sherlock, Jr., Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The Navigator. Call for times...
...well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later...
...Twain Tales is not then in the originality of adapting Twain but in the range of emotions the six tales explore. From the wry humor of "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" to the broad comedy "Mrs. MacWilliams and the Lightening" to the lyricism of life on the raft (before the steamboat intrudes) in that famous nineteenth chapter about Huck and Jim, the People's Theater shows that Twain, like most everyone else, is not as simple as he seems...
...honored that you and your Adjutants should choose to emulate me). However, the means of Publick convayence were decidedly inferior then to what they have become today. I do certify that, to travel from the Hermitage to Washington, I myself had to board a flatboat and then a steamboat, disembarking at Pittsburgh to complete another arduous journey by overland stagecoach. Even the lure of a day in the capital could not persuade more than a Fraction of my ardent partisans to undergo weeks of such travail...
...swimming pool, a sauna, a movie theater, a two-deck dining room and a grand salon. Originally the Queen was intended to be a much closer copy of her predecessors but, as one river regular explained, "steel and asbestos don't lend themselves to curlicues and steamboat gothic...