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courtyard. If you had an Eberson theater in your town, that was really something."
THEATER: Orpheum restored.
The outer lobby of the Orpheum is nothing special. But once inside the auditorium, visitors stand in an Andalusian garden courtroom. Faux fax box seats once had vines climbing up their spindle trim.
There still is a wide strip of dark blue paint on the ceiling above the balcony that was part of an illusion of night sky completed with clouds generated by a special machine gone now for nearly 50 years.
Ted Sheahem is heading the restoration committee. He managed the theater before World War II and married the cashier from a competing theater, the Miller. He has a huge collection of autographed photos and memories of the vaudeville troupes that got several thousand dollars for a week's run while headliners such as Ela Fitzgerald made $2,500 for a one-night stand. The restoration is being done in phases.
"We want to be able to use it while we're working on it," Setter said. "That should help us raise some of the money, too."
The concluding concert of the 1994 Wichita Jazz Festival is scheduled to be held at the theater April 23. Rented seats will be placed on the sloped gray wooden floor, and the audience will have to use bathrooms in offices next to the theater itself.
Francis Saint, operations manager for the restoration, delights in showing a visitor the sophisticated backstage light control panel that sometimes took two or more operators during complicated lighting sequences.
"It works, for the most part," he said, turning on some white stage lights. "But we're missing a lot of
bulbs."
He talks lovingly of the two-story loft type backstage area that allowed whole theater sets to be suspended far above the stage and lowered as needed.
Or there's the life-size mannequin with the Barbie accessory-spangled gown and three-headed shoes, eyeglasses framed with Barbie arms and legs.
the theater, which became a movie house when vaudeville waned, closed in 1976. It was reopened occasionally through the years, but the last major event there was a sold-out Gershwin Festival in 1896.
One Barbie is "Lady Liberty," straddling a globe held aloft by two Ken dolls, hot pink high heels crossing the Atlantic. Another is spray-painted white and pierced from head to ankle with a few hundred nails.
BERLIN — Call her sublime. The most popular doll of all time. A cultural icon transcending generations. It's enough to get dozens of artists and designers all worked up.
"But we're going to make her grand again," she said.
And a lot of Barbies got their hair
Located in downtown Wichita, the structure's exterior appears sound. But Setter says it will take $77,000 just to replace the bricks that have fallen from it.
The Associated Press
Barbie, you see, is 35.
"We've got a lot of good volunteers! What we need is more of them. And money. Of course it's going to take a lot of money."
Artists 'doll up' Barbie for exhibit
The leggy, chesty, molded plastic mannequin is adored, adorned, mocked and defrocked in a special anniversary show by mostly German artists at Berlin's premiere art exhibition hall, the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
At the exhibit's opening last month, Handler heard people use the words "cult" and "icon" in discussing her doll's role in popular culture.
done — by stylists such as Vidal Sassoon.
"There has never been anything like this, to my knowledge, relating to a doll, let alone Barbie," said the doll's 77-year-old American creator, Ruth Handler.
There has never been anything like Barbie, an 11/2-inch doll with a flawless figure who transformed "playing dolls."
With Barbie, girls became more than diaper-changing mothers. With this new adult doll, they could play out their dreams of adolescence and beyond. Barbie at the prom. Barbie gets married. Barbie goes to the moon.
"Over and over I've had it said to me by women," Handler said in a telephone interview from her Los Angle
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les home. "She was much more than a doll for them. She was part of them."
Handler got the idea for Barbie from the paper dolls with which her own daughter played. She found the model in 1956 in a European doll based on a comic-strip character, known as Lilli, from the German newspaper Bild.
Barbie was introduced to a dubious market at the 1959 New York toy fair.
Several transformations later, Barbie now is available in a lot of colors in more than 100 lands, and every two seconds, another Barbie is sold.
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The beauty in the black-and-white striped Jersey bathing suit and sandals, named after Handler's daughter, proved a quick hit.
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More than 700 million Barbie, Ken (the boyfriend created in 1961) and Skipper (the sister who appeared in 1964) dolls have been sold, according to Mattel, the toy maker Handler, founded with her husband in 1945.
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