Word: steuben
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, trustees of an estate were refused civic permission to carry out their trust: to erect bronze statues of four Revolutionary War generals in front of Independence Hall. Puzzled, they turned the statues of Generals LaFayette, Montgomery, Pulaski and Steuben over to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court...
...STEUBEN VIENNA ROOM...
...Steuben Glass is excellent. The lines are good and the designing by Waugh, taking classical mythology as a subject, are well executed. His Zodiac Bowl is probably the most famous and has drawn the highest praise from all over the world. An unengraved piece, a huge brandy sniffing goblet, takes your breath away by its sweep and simplicity and the transparency of the glass...
...cast weaves its way through the messy plot principally against a background of a Roumanian chateau, solidly built, attributable only to the architectural school which conceived Steuben's Rathskeller. Singing with irrelevant gestures, fullface always to the audience, the players in "The Moon Rises" are forced to be more aggressively charming than most musical comedy actors because every line given them, must, to survive, be punctuated with a sweeping gesture, or a flashing smile...
Designer Teague's composite answer for Steuben included glasses decorated with clusters of bubbles, a vase with a formalized parachute design, a graceful, cylindrical cocktail shaker...