Word: bel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa Dagh, to do the book. He called in Composer Weill, who had finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny Johnson, to score the spectacle. Designer Norman Bel Geddes, long finished with Lysistrata but not yet started on Dead End, was hired to set the spectacle. Of all the episodes in The Eternal Road's tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show as occupying its own specially...
Dead End-Sidney Kingsley's lively urchins on Norman Bel Geddes' realistic set of an East Side Manhattan slum...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
...coffee that steamed and smelled. Of late, the Krasnaya Presnaya Theatre in Moscow, part of whose repertory is a play in which the audience finds itself in the midst of a pitched battle, has taken the lead in holding the theatrical mirror up to life. From whatever source Mr. Bel Geddes gets his inspiration for such supernaturalistic productions as he designed for Dead End and Iron Men, he has not been over-lucky in finding good plays to go with them...
...sole cause of war is too old and battered for adult consideration. Best feature of Ten Million Ghosts is the settings-particularly one of a Universe Forges gun works-by 34-year-old Donald Oenslager, who is making a strong bid to add his name to those of Norman Bel Geddes (see p. 47), Lee Simonson, Jo Mielziner and Robert Edmond Jones as one of the ablest stage designers...