Background
Throckmorton, Cleon was born on October 8, 1897 in Absecon, New Jersey, United States. Son of Ernest Upton and Roberta (Cowing) Throckmorton.
artist produced theatrical designer
Throckmorton, Cleon was born on October 8, 1897 in Absecon, New Jersey, United States. Son of Ernest Upton and Roberta (Cowing) Throckmorton.
Special classes National Bureau Standards, 1920, 21, 22. Student Carnegie Institute Technology, 1922, George Washington University, 1923-1924. Studied various art schools, also art centers in Europe.
Stage designer numerous Broadway first productions, including In Abraham’s Bosom (Pulitzer prize), Alien Corn, American Tragedy, Noah, also including many of Eugene O’Neill’s original plays, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, All God’s Children, The Glencairn Cycle. Stage setting designer musicals Three Penny Opera, Greenwich Village Follies, Theatre Guild production Porgy and Bess, numerous others Designed, supervised building and equipping of theaters: Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts, Westport (Connecticut) Country Theatre, Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Cherry Lane Theater, New York City.
With Christopher Morley operated 2 theaters for revival old melodramas, including After Dark, The Black Crook.
Author plays Bowery After Art, Shoestring Revue, South of Broadway, Stage Hands Lament, The Art Photographer. Produced, co-produced 18 Broadway plays, also plays outside New New York
Planned, designed balls and cruises, large weekend parties for hotels, world’s fair. Designed, executed murals for restaurants, night clubs, offices, apts.
Architect private homes.
Art director Columbia Broadcasting System, organized design departments, set up shops and studios, designer news broadcasts to illustrate battles and progress of war on all fronts (Award of Year), designed acoustical vanes for Columbia Broadcasting System Studio on 52d Saint, remodeled several legitimate New York theaters for broadcasting. Guggenheim fellow art and theater, 1935. Contributor articles theater, national publications Home: Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Atlantic City.
Married Juliet Brenon, May 13, 1927.