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Bernstein, Aline
Bernstein, Aline [née Frankau] (1881–1955), designer. The native New Yorker originally intended to become a portrait painter, but when her interest in costume design surfaced, she worked with Irene and Alice Lewisohn, then designed costumes as well as some sets for the Neighborhood Playhouse in 1924. Her later costume designs were seen in such notable plays as Ned McCobb's Daughter (1926), several revivals at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1931), Reunion in Vienna (1931), The Children's Hour (1934), The Male Animal (1940), Harriet (1943), and The Happy Time (1950). In 1937 Bernstein was one of the founders of the Museum of Costume Art, which was eventually absorbed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Helen Hayesrecalled a costume she designed for her Caesar and Cleopatra (1925) as “hand‐dyed blue taffeta appliqués on cloth of gold in the form of little feathers like the wings of ibis. It was a work of art.” Thomas Wolfe, with whom she had a prolonged affair, wrote about her as Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. Biography: Aline, Carole Klein, 1979.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Bernstein, Aline." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Bernstein, Aline." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-BernsteinAline.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Bernstein, Aline." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-BernsteinAline.html |
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Bernstein, Aline
Bernstein, Aline [née Frankau] (1881–1955), American costume and scene designer. Her first work for the stage was for the Indian play The Little Clay Cart (1924) produced by the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her designs were seen in a number of important productions, including Sherwood's Reunion in Vienna (1931) for the Theatre Guild; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1928) and The Seagull (1929), Romeo and Juliet (1930), and Molnár's Liliom (1932) for the Civic Repertory Theatre under Eva Le Gallienne; and, for other managements, Barry's The Animal Kingdom and Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean (both 1932); Elmer Rice's Judgement Day (1934); and Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1934) and The Little Foxes (1939). The designs for Cocteau's The Eagle Has Two Heads (1949) were also much admired.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Bernstein, Aline." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Bernstein, Aline." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-BernsteinAline.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Bernstein, Aline." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-BernsteinAline.html |
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