Theatre Design & Technology - Oct 1974 - 3

CONTENTS
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Editorial & News

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Unionization of the Stage Designer - Male and
Female
Don Stowell, Jr.

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The Design Techniques of Gabor Forray National Opera, Budapest
Glenn M. Loney

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Composition in Light
Functional Considerations

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A Short Course in Scenography - University
of California, Santa Barbara
Ladislav Vychodil

Aesthetic and
Delbert Unruh

REGULAR FEATURES
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Technical Reports

30

New Products

33

Book Reviews

36

Letter to the Editor

Tony Courtade, David Hale, Herb Greggs (Newsletter), Richard D.
Thompson, Fred M. Wolff

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Walter H. Walters, Bernard Works

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BACK COVER: Design Model for Tragedia Cloveka,
J. Madach, by L. Vychodil, Photo by Josef Vavro.

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FRONT COVER: Design Rendering for Atlantida,
V. Nezval, by L. Vychodil, 1961.

EDITORIAL OFFiCES

THEATRE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
Number Thirty Eight October, 1974

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by the U. S. Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.

OCTOBER. 1974

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