Word: simonson
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Simonson '08, noted New York stage designer, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, of the Yale School of the Drama, and other specialists in this field will hold seminars connected with the summer dramatic courses...
...airs. Today it not only produces on its own, but works in association with other producers, accepts backing from Billy Rose, "sponsors" plays in which it has no producing interest. Today it is also under new management. For nearly 20 years six directors-Lawyer Lawrence Langner, Scene Designer Lee Simonson, Banker Maurice Wertheim, Actress Helen Westley, Director Philip Moeller, Theatre-Mind Theresa Helburn-ran the Guild, admitting but one newcomer: Alfred Lunt. Last year the board voted all power to Langner and Helburn. Judging by this season's results, two bosses are better than seven...
...Theatre Guild produced Liliom (with Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne) 19 years ago, it found the right tone and tempo. Last week's production does not. Not only does Actor Meredith fail to catch Schildkraut's swagger, and the sets fail to measure up to Lee Simonson's stunning original ones, but the play moves slowly, puffingly, from scene to scene-as though Liliom took his round trip to Hell and back on a milk train...