Word: simonson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat house was 85% subscribed, the highest ever. Wagner's "Ring" cycle, one of its biggest drawing cards, will be back on the boards in new trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets by Broadway Designer Lee Simonson. Some scenes will be done for the first time with screen projections, an economy trick borrowed from the New York City Opera Co. Most of the glamorous old stars-Pinza, Pons, Traubel, Melchior-are back, and 14 new singers, six of them homegrown...
Died. Miguel Simonson, 88, opulent Nicaraguan landowner and father of 46 surviving children (35 sons, eleven daughters); in Managua, Nicaragua...
Among the score of Broadway greats who received their first training in the theatre as members of the Club are Robert Benchley '12, author, humorist, and actor, John Mason Brown '23, who now is a top-notch critic, and Leo Simonson '08, a famous designer...
...Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum sound was most elaborate. Visitors, ushered in by an attendant, strolled through a labyrinthine gallery designed (by Lee Simonson) like a Coney Island house of mystery. As they paused before each picture, lights flashed on and a concealed sound mechanism honked a short lecture describing its notable points. No money saver, this sound-equipped tour, which ranged from Greek sculpture to Cézanne apples, cost about $14,000 ($10,000 of it a grant from the Carnegie Corp...
...Simonson '08, noted New York stage designer, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, of the Yale School of the Drama, and other specialists in this field will hold seminars connected with the summer dramatic courses...