Word: bel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the displays planned for next season by the Harvard Society of Contemporary Art will be a showing of models for the Chicago Exposition buildings and theater models by Norman Bel Geddes. Officials of the organization also made known yesterday the names of the executives for next year...
...work of the Society will be continued under the direction of L. E. Kirstein '30, now president; Sophia R. Ames, present secretary; P. S. Owen '32, also at present on the executive committee; and Mrs. Paul M. Herzog. In addition to the exhibit by Bel Geddes the present plans include an architectural exhibition...
...Algeria, in Sidi-bel-Abbes, hot and dusty citadel of the Legion, there was an ordinary dress parade, no more. Short and stocky Colonel Rollett, his red whiskers now streaked with grey, read the Legion roll of honor. The band blared "La Marseillaise," then rollicking war songs, the slightly sinister airs of the only military force in the civilized world today which, when it captures a town, has officially the right to loot, the Legion's cherished Droit de Pillage...
...bring architecture back to America as something real to America. The proposed World's Fair in Chicago is a conspicuous example of modernism sprung up overnight, of superficiality, sham, imitation. They are making a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses. Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson or Norman Bel Geddes could better have done it. [Norman Bel Geddes is designing several theatres for the fair.] They are specialists in spectacle. But the architecture for the Fair is only bad theatre where theatre does not belong. We want genuineness in our architecture-the genuine expression of American life...
...scene designer is presented as the man who frames the play. Lee Simonson and Robert Edmond Jones represent the tendency to keep the settings in their true proportion to the play, while Norman-Bel Geddes is criticized for allowing the scenic design to over-shadow the actors...