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Opinions vary as to whether Norman Bel Geddes, "Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones or Jo Mielziner is the ablest scene designer in the U. S. But all critics agree that swarthy Artist Simonson is the most rationally articulate. A. B. Magna cum Laude at Harvard (1908), he loves a well-chosen word as well as a shrewdly-drawn line. Onetime editor of Creative Art, he has written innumerable essays, delivered hundreds of lectures. His latest book. The Stage is Set,* is not only a beautifully written history of the art of stage decoration but a Ph. D. thesis full...
...Yesterday the mail runner came up with a copy of TIME for me among other things. It came to Bel-Abbes, then to Fez and on to Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken...
Married. Norman Bel* Geddes, 39, stage & industrial designer; and Frances Resor Waite, his assistant in costume design, Cincinnati socialite; in Manhattan...
...limited group of members, who pay $12 a year to see ten Sunday evening performances, cinemas of esthetic merit which, because of censors or lack of popular appeal, are not exhibited in commercial cinemansions. Sponsors include George Gershwin, Eva Le Gallienne, Leopold Stokowski, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Norman Bel Geddes, Nelson Rockefeller. Organized not for profit but for "the study, research and development of film art." the Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed by Playwright Sidney Howard, which last fortnight gave...
Escorted by Swiss and Noble Guards in full uniform, Pope Pius XI and his papal court entered Consistory Hall in the Vatican one day last week. There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College. As is his wont, Pius XI made reply...