Word: simonson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group which attended the meeting included Heywood Broun '10, John Mason Brown '23, William Merriam Chadbourne '00, Owen Gould Davis '92, Robert Edmond Jones '10, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Lee Simonson '09, and Maurice Wertheim '06, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '03, Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, Rudolf Protas Berle '14, George Francis Abbott '12, Lewis Beach '13, William Harris '19, Sydney Coe Howard, and Robert Ittell...
...Halfback Owl, also Bluemenstock and Simonson heard their names cheered by Springfield students who, not daring to expect much, saw them plough through Brown to win by the width of a Brown kick that went crooked. Springfield 7, Brown...
...times, to the stark staccato of the new school. These make for cloudiness but the play frequently transcends its uncertainty with moments of eerie suspense. And the dia log is often shot through with a fine fire of poetry. It is played against elemental backgrounds designed by Lee Simonson which do much to soften its rough edges...
...very painful to observe that Lee Simonson's settings, in which a pointed arch at the back of the stage became a frame for pictures of the sky or country, and Wolfgang Zeller's curious songs, were far superior to the play itself. Possibly this was due to the dull fervors of translation; but the only epigram which Mephistopheles achieved, though he was forever trying, was this: "He died like a good Christian for he had much to repent...
...decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at paintings than to read books is a question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change can be summarized by saying, that formerly the subject of a picture was a text whereas...