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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...
...keep his exhibition a history of the development of stage design, not a history of the 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...
Nurses in the American Hospital in Paris told U. S. correspondents that a woman named Marguerite Clark had been brought into the hospital with head bandaged, bruises on her face, was lodged secretly in the maternity wing. Chicago Tribune Newshawk Edmond Taylor slipped into her room, recognized "Marguerite Clark" as Gladys Wallis Insull, wife of Runaway Samuel Insull, reported her face unmarked. Daily Mrs. Insull, a beauteous ingenue in the '90s, has a bowl of milk brought to her room, dips her fingers in it for 15 minutes to keep her nails from cracking...
...Elizabeth, the Queen three years ago, has done better by Mary in Mary of Scotland. Of the story of murder and plotting, cloaks & swords, knife-faced Bothwell, caddish Darnley, crafty young Elizabeth, the snaggle-toothed pack of Scots Lords, he has made a poetic play. Designer Robert Edmond Jones has set it against six harsh, splendid sets. The first scene is of Mary's landing at Leith, a "cold, dour, villainous and dastardly" place. The second in England shows Elizabeth plotting to trick Mary into marrying Tudor-blooded Darnley, a Catholic, thus enraging the Protestant Lords and making...
Adams: Gillingham, Breaudreau, l.e.; Huntington, l.t.; Newton, l.g.; Johnson, Hart, c.; Powell, r.g.; North, r.t.; Violi, Barton, r.e.; Hatch, q.b.; Edmond, Wills, Piper, h.b.; Ingalls...