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The Arts Management Handbook

research reports
They are all fine.

Alvin H. Reiss. Law-Arts Publications,
Inc.: 1970. 655 pp., illus.

As a former student of the late Gail Plummer, whose Business of Show Business
was a standard for years, and who offered
courses in arts management in the forties,
one cannot let slip by the very minor point
that Mr. Reiss was not the first to teach
arts management courses as was asserted
in the introduction. Nevertheless, Mr. Reiss
has produced a work which is so practical,
so loaded with useful information, and so
readable, that it will surely be the standard
in the field. When subsequent editions are
published, Mr. Reiss might consider adding
a detailed author and subject matter index,
an omission which is the only shortcoming
in the present edition of the Arts Management Handbook.

Mr. Reiss has done a brilliant job of
compiling and organizing information vital
to arts managers. Basing his material on
articles in the newsletter, Arts Management, Mr. Reiss has clustered his information and data around five general headings:
Economics and Sociology; Arts Organization and Management; Public Relations and
the Arts; Business and the Arts; and the
Arts and the Community: Private, Governmental and Educational. Mr. Reiss has selected articles by first-rate men such as
George C. White and Alvin Toffler, and the
articles vary in length from one-half-page to
several pages. Subject matter is primarily
taken from case studies, although one finds

Medieval Theatre Costume
Iris Brooke. Theatre Arts Books, New
York: 1967. 112 pp., illus. $6.95.

Any costume designer, wardrobe mistress, or worker who is, or will be, designing or building costumes for a play set in
the medieval period, will find this book invaluable.
Sixteen full-page scale illustrations show
clearly how effective and authentic medieval garments can be easily cut and assembled. The drawings illustrate how the
beautifully flowing Iines of medieval garments were created through the use of the
ha If circle, the three-quarter circle and the
full circle. Diagrams for cutting fitted garments are also included, as are a measuring charge and illustrations of each of the
basic medieval garments.

Le Ville e I Teatri di Andrea Palladio
Giangiorgio Zorzi. Neri Pozza Editore,
Vicenza: 1969. 365 pp., 8 color plates,
514 photographs, 18 ground plans. Approx. $70.00.
Ever since he published his first article
in 1908 on Andrea Palladio, this Italian architect, known today as the Vitruvius of the
Renaissance, has been the lifetime study of
Giangiorgio Zorzi: an investigation that terminates with Le Ville e I Teatri. The last

THEATER DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

and speculative pieces.

Keith M. Engar
University of Utah

The text of Chapter 2, "Wardrobe," is
marvelously readable. It describes in detail
everything from housekeeping hints for the
wardrobe crew to ways to eliminate the construction problems of medieval costumes.
Other chapters deal with costumes for religious drama; heraldry and symbolism;
hoods, headdress and crowns; hose and
shoes; properties, armour, masks and wings;
and royalty and nobility. Each of these chapters covers its material in great detail, and
collectively they present the definitive medieval costume (if there is such a thing).
Miss Brooke's knowledge is obvious and
unquestioned, her advice sound, and her
approach to this area of costuming positively inspired. One can only hope she will
eventually present each of the other periods
of costume history in this same way.

Henry E. Tharp
Louisville Children's Theatre

of a series of four superbly printed comprehensive studies on the lifework of Andrea
Palladio (1508-1580), which began with
Zow's ! Designi delle Antichita in 1958
and was followed by his Le Opere Pubbliche e I Palazzi Privati (1964), and Le
Chiese e I Ponti (1967), La Ville e I
Teatri is not only a stunning illustration of
Zorzi's consuming passion for his subject
but a monumental example of sweeping
scholarship.
Between 1540 when Palladio designed
his first villa, the villa Godi of Lonedo, and

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