Word: simonson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simonson '09, one of the country's leading authorities on theatre design and function, will discuss the problems of "A University Theatre" at 4 p.m. today in Fogg Art Museum...
After graduating from Harvard, Simonson became a set designer for the Theatre Guild and the Metropolitan Opera. As a student he prepared for a career in architecture and consequently has done considerable work in the actual designing of theatres, principally in the West and Mid-West...
...Simonson has also written several books concerning the problems involved in set design...
...Eugene O'Neill, Sp '14-'15, S. N. Behrman '16, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Philip Barry Gr '19-'20; critics H. T. Parker '90, Van Wyck Brooks '08, Heywood Broun '10, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Robert Benchley '12, Brooks Atkinson '18 and John Mason Brown '23; designers Lee Simonson '09, Robert Edmund Junes '10 and Donald Oenslager '23; actors and actresses Walter Hampden '97, Osgood Perkins '14 and Dorothy Sands; and producers Winthrop Ames '95, Maurice Werthheim '06, George Abbot '12, Richard Aldrich '27 and Theresa Hilburn...
...Cambridge School of the Drama opened with an enrollment of 65. The school had no official connection with the University, although three quarters of its students were also undergraduates at either Harvard or Radcliffe. The administration was entirely in the hands of an alumni board of governors, including Simonson, Abbott, Davis, Macgowan, Jones, Wertheim and Ames. These men formed a visiting faculty which supplemented the permanent staff by coming to Cambridge periodically, when their professional duties allowed, to give lecture series and work with students on productions. This system seemed to strike the perfect balance between the professional...