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...Wells & Bel Geddes. Beyond Tri-Tactics real war-games buffs sail into the blue of their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
...play, Reinhardt plans to use sets designed by the leading American stage designer, Norman Bel Geddes, who created the settings for the New York World's Fair gigantic "Futursms." and for such stage shows as "Dead End," and Reinhardt's "Eternal Road...
...Reinhardt-Shaw-Bel Geddes combination brings together the top men in contemporary dramatic circles. The producer of the "Miracle" has teamed with the designer in the past, but the collaboration with Shaw is something new, and is expected to give birth to one of the outstanding plays in the '42' 43 season...
Already the individual exploits of some of Jimmy Doolittle's flyers had been recorded. In a brush with the French they lost two Spitfires (one pilot was saved), downed three Dewoitines. Lieut. Colonel F. M. Dean destroyed five French tanks near the interior Algerian airdrome of Sidi-bel-Abbès. Lieut. Thomas Taylor attacked a gun post near Oran, got two bullets in his plane, then got a tank...
...house for her, said Elaine Barrie, is the late John Barrymore's $33,000 mansion in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air. She got it with a divorce settlement in 1940, and will auction it off soon, move where she has "just enough room for myself, my two canaries and three dogs...