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Show HIGH Tlf,l "3 n n n n n n r By FLORENCE BITTNER It is possible to buy just about anything. If there's a way to make money on it, someone is selling, organizing, organiz-ing, designing, building or eliminating it. One of the intriguing in-triguing new services available availa-ble is "Rent an Event," which an enterprising young woman in New York has dreamed up. WITHIN THE bounds of law and decency, she will organize or-ganize and deliver an event. Due to the failure of Mardi Gras in New Orleans this year, she provided a New Yorker with his own Mardi Gras, including float, jazz band, sword swallowers, fire eaters, a fantastic meal. She put it all together in a Fifth" Avenue apartment for a mere $3,500. The possibilities are endless. I asked myself what kind of extravaganza I would like to have delivered for my entertainment. Eliminating those things which are illegal, immoral or fattening, there are still many events I'd like to have delivered to me, packaged, sanitized and managed. I'D LIKE a weekend in an English manor house at the turn of the century when butlers, footmen, upstairs maids, between stairs maids and housekeepers hovered; where everyone dressed for dinner and thirty guests was a conservative dinner party. I'd like to see the Taj Mahal. People who have seen it say it is one of the most visually exciting creations of man and pictures don't begin to do it justice. WHILE WE'RE in that neck of the woods, I'd like to visit a Tibetan monastery. I'd like to walk the streets of Nepal. I'd like to visit a plains Indian In-dian village on the day of a great buffalo hunt. I'd like to watch one of the herds of those prolific animals thunder past by the thousands. THE RENT an Event people have catered to the people who have everything. One Manhattan dame wanted a birthday surprise for her husband. On the great day, she shook her spouse awake and led him to the window. Across the street, on the broad steps of the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Museum, 10 ballerinas danced. "Just for you, dear," she said. I'd like to rent the da Vinci painting in .the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. It cost 6V? million and is protected like Fort Knox, but I'd like to spend at least a week just looking at it. Then I'd like to borrow a Rembrandt and a Rafael. I'D LIKE to attend a concert con-cert given by Caruso. I'd like to see John Barrymore play Hamlet. I'd like to attend a performance of 'The Mousetrap" Mouse-trap" in London. The Rent an Event people . fill unusual requests. A customer cus-tomer scanned his guest list for a small dinner party. It seemed boring. She rented him an intellectual. A CUSTOMER needed cheering up. She rented-what else:-a cheerleader. A customer cus-tomer needed understanding. She rented a Jewish mother. One felt out-of-touch. She rented a newscaster. I can't keep up" with newspapers. news-papers. I'd like someone to ' read newspapers and glean the important and interesting. ! can't find time to watch TV and I'd like someone to tape and serve up at convenient times some of the best programs which always seem to come .when I'm otherwise occupied. I'D LIKE to watch the elephants and lions in Africa, while there are still some left. I'd like to watch great whales. I'd like to see a polar bear on an ice floe. I'd like to go out on a fishing boat in a storm. I'd like to watch a great chunk of a Greenland glacier break off and slide into the ocean. I'd like to go far enough north to watch the sun skim the horizon for weeks without setting. I'D LIKE to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the First. I'd like to watch King John sign the Magna Carta. I'd like to watch the surrender of Cornwallis at "orktown. I'd like to hear the Gettysburg Address delivered by Lincoln. Rent an Event? I wouldn't know which to choose. For people who have everything, it might be difficult to find something new and exciting. For those of us who have a lot butjar from everything, the problem would be to settle on which event we'd like best. Maybe right now I'd settle for an early spring. |
