Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after six years in the business, Albert Richard Johnson has been called "the father of musical comedy design." Son of an agricultural expert and professional Russian observer named Albert Aaron Johnson (Russia at Work, The Soviet Union at Work, Progress in the Soviet Union), he knew a little about drafting when he came to Manhattan from Florida to study with Norman Bel Geddes. He learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office...
...Johnson job. In 1931 he was employed on The Band Wagon. His merry-go-round scene and the Pare Monceau set used a two-way revolving stage for the first time. His colors were strong, but not loud, and his grasp of scenic design was flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling at Hollywood, build the sets...
Ably abetted by John Murray Anderson and no less than seven costume designers, Albert Johnson has set the show in superb fashion. The first crack out of the Johnson paint box is a charming mechanical clock revolving in centre stage. Two automata strike at bells while other mummers, masked and mounted on wooden disks like toy soldiers, circle past. With this pantomime of musical revue, Life Begins at 8:40 gets off to a good start at about...
...FOUNDRY?Albert Halper?Viking ($2.50). This second novel by a young "proletarian" whose Union Square won him a Guggenheim Fellowship tells of workers and bosses in an electrotype foundry...
Died. Mrs. Benjamin Warner, 76, mother of the four (Jack, David, Harry, Albert) cinematic Warner Brothers; in Hollywood. Only Brother Jack was at the mother's bedside. The rest arrived too late...