|
Samuel James Hume (June 14, 1885 – September 1, 1962) was an American dramatic director, producer, art museum director, and book dealer. Samuel Hume was born in San Francisco, California in 1885, the son of James B. Hume, a famous Wells Fargo detective.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://blogs.wellsfargo.com/guidedbyhistory/2008/03/hume-mansion-and-wells-fargo/ )〕 He attended Berkeley High School, graduating in 1904, and then the University of California at Berkeley, where he played leading roles in student drama productions and received a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1908. He attended Harvard beginning in 1913 and earned a master's degree. After studying modern European theater practices with Edward Craig in Florence, he organized the first exhibition of stagecraft in the United States in 1914. The exhibition was presented in Boston, New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. From 1916 to 1918 he was director of the newly formed Arts and Crafts Theater in Detroit, Michigan, part of the Little Theatre Movement. He brought Sheldon Cheney, an old friend from Berkeley, to Detroit to launch ''Theater Arts'' magazine out of the Arts and Crafts Theater. In 1918 Hume returned to California to become assistant professor of dramatic literature and art at the University of California where, in addition, he directed the Greek Theatre until 1924. He then toured Europe, where he met and married Portia Bell, a fellow Berkeley graduate who was an aspiring sculptor. Returning to Berkeley, the couple hired John Hudson Thomas to design a home in the Berkeley hills modeled after a medieval French cloister. Portia Bell Hume became a psychiatrist and established psychiatry clinics in San Francisco and Berkeley. Samuel Hume was the director of the Berkeley Art Association's Berkeley Art Museum from 1928 to 1932. He had the title of director of avocational activities in the State of California Department of Education at the time. He established At the Sign of the Palindrome, a rare book business specializing in books on art and theater and also selling art reproductions, first in his home and later in downtown Berkeley. He is coauthor of the books ''Twentieth Century Stage Decoration'' (1928) and ''Theater and School'' (6 editions, 1932–47). ==Research resources== *(Guide to the Samuel J. and Portia Bell Hume Papers ) at The Bancroft Library *"The Hume Cloister: A Commemorative Brochure Presented by the Berkeley Historical Society," 1999. *("Exhibition of Stagecraft," ''Harvard Crimson,'' October 6, 1914 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel James Hume」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|