This or That

[vitanola]

Amy Lowell

H. M. Pullham or George Apley?

 

[2jakes]

H.M. Pullham


16th Century Amber Varnish or Venetian Amber Varnish?

 

[vitanola]

16th century. For restoration work the lighter color is more useful, and The relatively slow drying time is ot a problem.

Sigmund Romberg or Emmerich Kalman?

 

[2jakes]

16th century. For restoration work the lighter color is more useful, and The relatively slow drying time is ot a problem.

Sigmund Romberg or Emmerich Kalman?

Is this varnish useful for other than restoration work? Yes or no.


I will pass on these composers of which I’m not familiar to reply.

So.....Sigmund Romberg or Emmerich Kálmán?

 

[MisterCairo]

So.....Sigmund Romberg or Emmerich Kálmán?

Kalman, having researched both I preferred the suit in his photograph.


Gilbert and Sullivan or Lennon and McCartney?

 

[LizzieMaine]

G&S. "I've got a little list..."

Book musicals or revues?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Second.

Nice and modest Bialetti-Mokka or pretensious real Espresso with snobbish "crema"?

 

[vitanola]

Is this varnish useful for other than restoration work? Yes or no.

I don't know, as I do not paint original work. From my experience it should be, as it has a long open time.

 

[vitanola]

G&S. "I've got a little list..."

Book musicals or revues?

Revues, or at least frothy, insubstantial, pre-war book musicals.

John Murray Anderson or George White?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Anderson. Never got the press of White or Ziegfeld, but put out a much classier product.

Greenwich Village Follies or The Passing Show of 19XX?

 

[vitanola]

"Greenwich Village Follies", thought I have a soft spot for "Artists and Models".

Freshman Masterpiece or Atwater Kent 20 (or 20c)?

 

[2jakes]

"Greenwich Village Follies", thought I have a soft spot for "Artists and Models".

Freshman Masterpiece or Atwater Kent 20 (or 20c)?

Wow...you gave my memory mode a jump start !
My uncle had one of those big knob wood radios , the old Freshman.


Blind Lemon Jefferson or Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter?

 

[vitanola]

Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Paramount or Gennett?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Paramount.

Waiting, until your frozen-pies from supermarket, "Choco and cream", "Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte" and "Zupfkuchen" are defrosted correctly OR starting to nosh from the frozen stuff, right after comg home and unpacking them??

 

[vitanola]

We don't buy frozen baked goods. We either bake ourselves or buy from a wonderful (and inexpensive) local bakery. We do buy frozen bread dough, though, which we generally don't consume until it has been baked.

Wallpaper or Kalsomine?

 

[2jakes]

I would probably go with wallpaper like my grandmother used to have.

Wood or tile floor?

 

[vitanola]

Wood. Quarter-sawn oak when I can afford it, otherwise rift-sawn fir or sugar pine, which is cheap, durable, and looks great. Except, of course in kitchens, where the fir or pine works well, but oak is troublesome. In an ideal world a kitchen floor would be made of maple, but these days clear No.1 maple is just too expensive. Oak works well enough, I suppose, but only if the floor is treated like that in a living room, not like that in a service room.

Kathleen Norris or Harold Bell Wright?

 

[2jakes]

Kathleen Norris or Harold Bell Wright?

Wright.

Porfirio Diaz or Francisco Madero?

 

[vitanola]

Madero, of course!

Sergius Witte or Prince Stolypin?

 

[2jakes]

Witte.
One of the first to understand the force of the printed word & used the newspapers
for carrying out his plans.

R.W. Emerson or H.D. Thoreau?