Word: simonson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to having genius, the highest honor in the art world is discovering genius. Lee Simonson has some claim to the first, by virtue of his stage designs executed for the Theatre Guild (Manhattan). He may have some claim to the second as a result of his announced revelation that Diego Rivera, Mexican painter of little international repute, is the greatest artist in the world. Being a Socialist, Artist Rivera subscribes to the idea, "From those according to their ability, to those according to their need." Therefore, he painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building...
...Creighton, Chairman, Miss Joan Sullivan; J. W. Belser, Miss Lamora Gleason; D. G. Casto, Miss Edna Applebee; J. H. Gebelein, Miss Polly Smith; C. W. Gillies, Miss Marjorie Sullivan; Francis Millet, Miss Debora Wood; G. S. Rich, Miss Claudia Hencken; A. E. Simonson, Miss Jane Murray; J. V. D. Southworth, Miss Martha Collins; Harold Wagar, Miss Barbara Backus; C. P. Morehouse, Miss Sally Hardeastle; Mr. Henry Kass, Miss A. F. Merian...
...things. With such an arrangement students, instead of being confined to the amateur classrooms of "English 47," would have large contacts with the world of drama. They would learn not only from scholars but from experience. Miss Helbrun for astute showmanship, Mr. Moeller for dramaturgy and stage direction. Mr. Simonson for scenery. Mr. Wertheim for economics, Miss Westley for histrionism, Mr. Reicher for production and Mr. Munsell for business management. Judging from results this group, if it were to take the Harvard chicks under its frigid wing, would incubate some masters and masterpieces...
...Guild's Board of Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consists of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...
...Affair was the work of Rachel Barton Butler. Two years ago there was You and I, by Philip J. Q. Barry. Other craftsmen who learned their trade from Prof. Baker are Eugene O'Neill, Edward Sheldon, Edward Knobloch, David Carb, Jules Eckert Goodman, Kenneth MacGowan (producer) and Lee Simonson (scenic director...