Word: simonson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architects last autumn and its terms were substantially these: let's see you design an intelligent theatre, if possible. The challenger was a hopeful organization entitled the American Na tional Theatre and Academy, whose advisory board includes such theatre folk as Katharine Cornell, Maxwell Anderson, the Lunts, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones. Because these people believe that future health and expansion for the U. S. theatre lies in the hinterland rather than in hectic Manhattan, the site pro posed for their festival theatre was on the campus of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. First prize...
Stocky, industrious Teacher Jacob Simonson, who will have charge of the school, has been ten years persuading the Board of Education to create it. He will stock his school with 300 picked students. For the first cellophane-wrapped graduates, he says, there will be waiting in New York City alone at least 800 jobs...
...years has there come to Boston a play that promised more than "The Masque of Kings". Its director, Philip Moeller; its designer, Lee Simonson; its stars, Henry Hull, Margo, Pauline Frederick, and Dudley Diggs; its author, Maxwell Anderson--these names augured well. It would be pleasant to say that these potentialities have been realized; pleasant but not true...
...Fifth Ave., she took the first decisive step of separating from her husband. Guests flocked to her salon, enmeshed her in their tangled affairs. Sculptor Jo Davidson brought Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander Berkman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Max Eastman, Frances Perkins, Margaret Sanger, Mary Heaton Vorse, many others. The impressionable hostess, vibrating to labor leaders, radical journalists, jailbirds, futurist artists and philosophical anarchists as sensitively as she had responded to Florentine decadents, soon...
...battered for adult consideration. Best feature of Ten Million Ghosts is the settings-particularly one of a Universe Forges gun works-by 34-year-old Donald Oenslager, who is making a strong bid to add his name to those of Norman Bel Geddes (see p. 47), Lee Simonson, Jo Mielziner and Robert Edmond Jones as one of the ablest stage designers...