STRATFORD THEATRE
NEW SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL WOMAN ARCHITECT’S DESIGN CHOSEN Rugby, January 5. Miss E'izabeth Scott, daughter of a Bournemouth doctor, has been chosen as architect for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon to replace the theatre burned down in 1926. Although she is only 29, her design has been considered the most suitable of six submitted by three English and three American architects who were chosen from 72 original competitors. The design is described as bold and a splendid conception, in which full advantage has been taken of the exceptionally beautiful site on the banks of the Avon. Miss Scott states that her design is the basts of the building. Her idea is that anyone seeing it from outside should know that it is the theatre in which Shakespeare is played. More than £230,000, much of which has come from America, bus been subscribed for the theatre, which will be one of the finest in England.—British Official Wireless.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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