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SAUNDERSON MACGOWAN Chicago...
...sculpture garden, U.C.L.A.'s academic explosion provided one. Working with landscape architects and engineers, Murphy carved out a site on the new North Campus. The garden nestles amid a cluster of spanking new buildings-the business-administration and social-science centers, a research library, the theater-arts building (Macgowan Hall), and the Dickson Art Center, with its galleries, studios and classrooms...
Where Murphy needed help was in assembling the sculpture. Actress Anna Bing Arnold (who performed in the 1930s under the stage name of Anna Kostant) contributed Anna Mahler's show-bizzy Tower of Masks for the entrance to Macgowan Hall. In 1964 the U.C.L.A. Arts Council and Regent Norton Simon bought Lipchitz' Song of the Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with...
Died. Kenneth Macgowan, 74, lifelong devotee of the dramatic arts, who in 1925 abandoned a career as a drama critic to produce many of the plays of his close friend Eugene O'Neill, first in their own, early off-Broadway theater and then on Broadway-and after 45 films in Hollywood finally became a teacher, founding U.C.L.A.'s respected theater arts department in 1946; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...addition, the Summer School drama program will offer courses for academic credit. Among the faculty are Kenneth Macgowan, professor of Theatre Arts, Emeritus, at the University of California at Los Angeles; and Elliot Norton, drama critic and lecturer on Dramatic Literature at Boston University...