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Continued from page 5

Theatre passed on. In the memory of Donald Oenslager
and Frank Carrington, the Journal proudly includes
tributes from friends and colleagues on Page 9. *

NEWS

Rosco Laboratories to handle subscriptions to Sightline
Mr. Stan Miller of Rosco Laboratories has announced
that his firm will handle U.S. subscriptions to Sightline,
the Journal of A.B.T.T., U.S.I.T.T.'s counterpart in
England, The Association of British Theatre Technicians
was founded in 1961 to provide a forum for discussion
among theatre technicians, to collect and disseminate
information of a technical nature, and to advise and assist
all those involved in the planning and construction of new
and existing theatres. The editor of Sightline, Frederick
Bentham, as noted in Ed Kook's letter above, will be
visiting our shores this fall conducting Master Classes in
lighting and lighting control. If you, the reader, are
unfamiliar with Mr. Bentham's wit, as well as expertise,
we recommend to you his editorial in the Spring, 1975 of
Sightline wherein he equates building maintenance-or
basic construction perhaps-at London's Heathrow Airport with servo controlled lighting units now under
development(?) in Britain. Bentham's perspectives are
precise and jolly good reading. Sightline's contents are
equally intriguing. The same Spring issue contains articles
on touring in Britain, Bentham's visit to Australia, one on
new lamp types plus others.
Sightline is a Journal we can highly recommend to
readers of Theatre Design and Technology. For subscription information, write: Mr. Stan Miller, Rosco Laboratories, Inc., 36 Bush Avenue, Port Chester, N.Y. 10573.*

projects submitted by Johnson "are as consistent in their
level of concept and execution as they are in their
diversity of scale, form, program and siting. Each is a
highly intelligent and, perhaps most important, highly
particular and appropriate project."
Johnson submitted four projects in the 1975 Sull ivan
Award competition - the Burden Auditorium at Harvard,
the Neuberger Museum at Purchase, New York, the Kline
Science Center at Yale, and his own "sculpture studio" in
New Canaan, Connecticut.
The Award and the $5,000 prize which accompanies it
were presented to Johnson at the Union's convention,
September 15, in Atlantic City, New Jersey . *
BANK OF OKLAHOMA TOWER
TO INCLUDE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Construction on the 51-story Bank of Oklahoma
Tower is expected to reach the half-way mark in
mid-October, according to Gene Williams, vice president
of design and construction for Williams Realty Corporation, developer of the $200-million Williams Center in
downtown Tulsa.
Williams Center is an urban development consisting of
a nine-square block area. Phase I is expected to be
completed in 1977. In addition to the office building it
will feature a Performing Arts Center, a luxury hotel, an
enclosed retail mall, restaurants, parking garages and a two
and one-half acre park . *

CONTRIBUTORS

ERRATUM:
We lost a zero somewhere in the Spring issue, No. 40.
Specifically, Richard Melo's Technical Report, "A Universal Platform-Wagon Unit" contains an error in the
second paragraph, right column on page 32. The second
sentence should read: "The deflection at the center of the
8'-0" side supported only at corners (500 Ibs.) is Y, inch".
As the author put it. "If it deflected % inch with a 50 lb.
load, why bother?" We agree and are happy to have the
elusive zero put in its place.

PHI LIP JOHNSON, FAIA, TO RECEIVE
1975 LOUIS SULLIVAN AWARD
FOR ARCHITECTURE
The 1975 Louis Sullivan Award for Architecture has
been won by Philip Johnson, FAIA, New York City, an
architect, critic and writer who for 40 years has been a
dominant influence on American and world architecture.
The Award, sponsored by the Bricklayers, Masons &
Plasterers International Union of America, and administered by The American Institute of Architects, is made
once each two years to a practicing U.S. or Canadian
architect whose work is judged to be'st exemplify the
ideals and accomplishments of Louis Sullivan, whose
architectural work in the late 1890's and early 1900's
won him recognition as the father of modern American
arch itecture.
Basis of the award is the submission of at least three
and no more than five completed projects.
The 1975 Sullivan Award jury reported that the four

Tony Courtade, Associate Editor (Book Reviews) is a
doctoral student at Indiana University. Readers wishing to
contact him in regard to books for review should write:
Dept. of Theatre and Drama, Indiana Univ., Bloomington,
Ind. 47401
Wolfgang Roth's career includes designs for Theatre,
Opera and Ballet. Two exhibitions of his work will be held
in the near future. The first opens in November at Lincoln
Center's Museum of the Performing Arts and will run
through February, 1976. A second exhibition will be
under the auspices of the Austrian Gallery and Embassy.
Entitled, "35 Years of an Artist's Work in American Show
Business:' it will include many designs, models, painter's
elevations and light plots.
Jarka Burian, a member of the theatre faculty at
S.U.N.Y. Albany, has spent the past year in Prague
researching the Czech theatre of the past and present. He
is the author of The Scenography of Josef Svoboda. Mr.
Burian promises us an update article on the eminent
Czech scenographer in the near future.
Lyn F. Caliva gained much of his experience with
dance floors while working as technical director for the
North Carol ina Dance Theatre and with several dance
companies in New York and Boston. He estimates that he
has laid 1000 miles of portable floor in the course of
performance tours and has mopped several hundred acres
of dance floor to date. For clarification of any point in his
article, see Technical Reports, p. 34 ... he can be reached
as follows: 11 Evergreen Ave., Somerville, Mass. 02145.

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