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<blockquote data-quote="Barbara Fan" data-source="post: 176323" data-attributes="member: 21"><p>Which Broadway Scenic Designer Also ‘Invented’ 20th Century America?</p><p>By Harry Haun</p><p>Jun 12, 2017</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.playbill.com/article/which-broadway-scenic-designer-also-invented-20th-century-america" target="_blank">http://www.playbill.com/article/which-broadway-scenic-designer-also-invented-20th-century-america</a></p><p></p><p>In the biography <em>The Man Who Designed the Future</em>, the man who designed 200 stage productions also designed planes, refrigerators, and skyscrapers.</p><p><img src="https://static.playbill.com/dims4/default/28602e3/2147483647/crop/661x372%2B0%2B550/resize/970x546/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplaybill-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F95%2F48%2Fe5ba082c48388ad2635a6375a0b7%2Fman-who-designed.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>“I didn’t see much of my father, but I absolutely adored him,” declares Barbara Bel Geddes dutifully—and quite truthfully—toward the tail end of <em>The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America</em>.</p><p></p><p>That may seem a rather lofty subtitle, but B. Alexandra Szerlip, Bel Geddes’ obsessively thorough biographer, makes a strong case that America when he died “was almost unrecognizable from the one he’d been born into. He could rightfully take credit for having put a hand to that vast difference.”</p><p></p><p><img src="https://static.playbill.com/dims4/default/07ab43b/2147483647/thumbnail/250x350/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplaybill-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F16%2Fe4%2F941a51dc43288fe63edd1fb11afe%2FThe-Miracle-09-24-12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The Miracle - September 8, 1924</p><p>A soaring imagination produced innovations in far-flung fields of endeavor. He designed planes, trains, and automobiles, even highways. Also, ships, stoves, kitchen scales, refrigerators, opera houses, burlesque houses, nightclubs, skyscrapers, cocktail shakers, fountain pens, shaving brushes, furniture, garters, typewriters, fly swatters, and all-weather stadiums.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Barbara Fan, post: 176323, member: 21"] Which Broadway Scenic Designer Also ‘Invented’ 20th Century America? By Harry Haun Jun 12, 2017 [URL]http://www.playbill.com/article/which-broadway-scenic-designer-also-invented-20th-century-america[/URL] In the biography [I]The Man Who Designed the Future[/I], the man who designed 200 stage productions also designed planes, refrigerators, and skyscrapers. [IMG]https://static.playbill.com/dims4/default/28602e3/2147483647/crop/661x372%2B0%2B550/resize/970x546/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplaybill-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F95%2F48%2Fe5ba082c48388ad2635a6375a0b7%2Fman-who-designed.jpg[/IMG] “I didn’t see much of my father, but I absolutely adored him,” declares Barbara Bel Geddes dutifully—and quite truthfully—toward the tail end of [I]The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America[/I]. That may seem a rather lofty subtitle, but B. Alexandra Szerlip, Bel Geddes’ obsessively thorough biographer, makes a strong case that America when he died “was almost unrecognizable from the one he’d been born into. He could rightfully take credit for having put a hand to that vast difference.” [IMG]https://static.playbill.com/dims4/default/07ab43b/2147483647/thumbnail/250x350/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplaybill-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F16%2Fe4%2F941a51dc43288fe63edd1fb11afe%2FThe-Miracle-09-24-12.jpg[/IMG] The Miracle - September 8, 1924 A soaring imagination produced innovations in far-flung fields of endeavor. He designed planes, trains, and automobiles, even highways. Also, ships, stoves, kitchen scales, refrigerators, opera houses, burlesque houses, nightclubs, skyscrapers, cocktail shakers, fountain pens, shaving brushes, furniture, garters, typewriters, fly swatters, and all-weather stadiums. [/QUOTE]
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