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...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...
LYSISTRATA?Norman Bel Geddes' version of Aristophanes' sophisticated comedy (TIME...
...make this venture seem untimely, the radio business is in a better position now than it has been for some time. Generally speaking, inventories are down, many old companies whose products became household words in a short time have been eliminated. Charles Freshman, Kolster, Brandes, Ware, Freed-Elsemann, Thompson, Bel-Canto, Sleeper, Themiodyne, are no longer names to be reckoned with. The industry has been concentrated into fewer, stronger hands, some of which are pioneer survivors. Old firms still strong include Atwater Kent, Philco, Grigsby-Grunow, Stromberg-Carlson, Crosley, Grebe, Andrea Inc., Gulbransen...
...theatrical capital of the country last week moved temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...
Lysistrata (Fay Bainter), disgusted by 20 years of war between Athens and the cities of Sparta, Thebes and Corinth, summoned the women of these towns to meet her in Mr. Bel Geddes' rich-hued, towering Acropolis. The older women arrived first, overpowered the guards, seized the citadel and the treasury. Somewhat tardily, the sleepy-eyed belles of Athens appeared, followed by big-boned Spartan women, country girls from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should...