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...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...
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...