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Other experts such as Lee Simonson '09 recommended an even larger, 1000 seat auditorium in addition to the 200 seat one. Both these would, under Simonson's plan, be part of a larger Visual Arts Center. The report of the Committee on Visual Arts recommended a Design Center separate from the Theatre. There has been no final decision on such a Center, but it will definitely not be in the same building with the Theatre...
ETHIOPIA. Replacing the recently resigned Rev. Dr. Joseph Simonson, 52, Lutheran minister and publicist (and reportedly one of the U.S. diplomats who fell into Dick Nixon's "cornball" category during the Vice President's recent African trip): Don Carroll Bliss, 59, now foreign service inspector in the State Department and a hardworking, unobtrusive career officer who has done duty in Ottawa, London, Calcutta. Paris, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore and Djakarta during his 34 years with the foreign service...
...Simonson '09, one of America's leading theatre experts, said yesterday "the ideal site for a Harvard Theatre is as part of a vast Modern Arts Center." He called for the housing of painting, sculpture, music, and dance in a single building where the "arts might live and grow...
...theatres, one a small, workshop-type, the other a 1000-person structure for large-scale performances, would be the ideal arrangement for the University, according to Simonson. "Make no little plans," he said. "If they cannot be realized at once, make them ample enough, and realize them later...
...Simonson emphasized that the theatre should have the finest lighting equipment available and an hydraulically operated forestage which could be raised or lowered when necessary. The stage itself should be at least 75 feet wide and 45 feet deep and the auditorium should have the benefit of the most advanced acoustical developments at the University's disposal...