GEDDES, NORMAN BEL (1893- ), American scenic artist, was born in Adrian, Mich., on April 27, 1893. After a short period at the Cleveland school of art, he went to the Chicago Art institute. From Chicago he moved to Detroit, where he was engaged as a commercial artist. Interested in the theatre, • he soon secured a position as scenic director, his work attracting the attention of a California director. He removed to Los Angeles, where he presented his first dramatic production, Nyu, in 1916. His first scenic work in New York was for Chas. W. Cadman's Shanewis, presented in 1918 at the Metropolitan opera house, since which time he has designed many operas, musical comedies and plays, his most popular success being The Miracle. He de signed and produced Jeanne d'Arc in Paris in 1925. He was co designer of the Guild theatre in New York, and the author of A Project for a Theatrical Presentation of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (19 24) and Horizons (1932).