Theatre Design & Technology - May 1968 - 2

THEATRE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

MAY, 1968

NUMBER THIRTEEN

Journal of the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology

CONTENTS
3 Editorial and News
5 uSlTrs Engineering Committee Looks at the Winch
System in the New Metropolitan Opera
17 Letters: Democracy at Work
18 Characteristics of Theatrical Lighting Equipment Using
Tungsten-Halogen Lamps T.M. Lemons and R.E. Levin
26 Towards the Solution of Contemporary Problems in
the Design of Theatres Paul Bortnovski, Stan Bortnovski and Liviu Ciulei (translated by Gary Gaiser and
Jane Popp)
30 A Handlist of
Joel Trapido

Dictionaries on Technical

Theatre

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33 Patents
34 Book Reviews
39 Recent Developments
41

Recent Publications on Theatre Architecture

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EDITOR
Ned A Bowman, University of Pittsburgh
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Gary W. Gaiser, Indiana University
Thomas Watson, University of Delaware
Walter H. Walters (Newsletter). Pennsylvania State University

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Edward C. Cole; Yale University
Wendell Cole; Stanford University
Eric Pawley; University of Southern California
David Thayer; University of Iowa

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Donald Swinney (President). Hofstra University
Bernard J. Weiss (Engineering Committee), Nolan Scenic Studios
Andie Wilson Kingwill (presentation Committee)
CIRCULATION MANAGER
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COVER: The fish -eye lens surveys recent opening festivities at
Sullivan and Adler's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. TD&T begins,
with this issue, its fourth year of publication illustrating the same
famous theatre which appeared on its first cover. Both theatre and
journal are enjoying sounder constitutions. Photo: Chicago Sun-Times,
by courtesy of The Auditorium Theatre.

Ed itorial Assistant
Jeff Embler
Copyright 1968, by the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.

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