Word: bel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia production left little to be desired. The one setting by Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...
...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 in a day, he returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave...
...curious Englishman called on the famed Belmonte to watch him prepare be fore a fight. "The first thing that Bel monte undressed and then dressed was the repulsive wound extending through his jaw and to his nose; then he took off the lower part of his pajamas and exposed some open sores which he had on his thighs, some souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive...
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...
...drama. The work of all the best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...