Word: egon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD-Count Egon Caesar Corti-Cosmopolitan...
...from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher, a quizzical associate of long standing. He handles play and players in the Tony Sarg manner. The entire cast jerk and jostle through the gleeful evening like life-sized marionettes, with a giddy promptness that makes it seem as though all were improvised. Miss LeGallienne is paradoxically absent from...
...into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...
...actor paces the room, the tempo of dialogue and movement, make all the difference in play production. To this work of Playwright Ibsen's old age, Miss Le Gallienne has given more careful direction than she has to previous offerings of her Civic Repertory Theatre. Egon Brecher, in the title role, is a picturesque figure, a capable actor. The New York Evening Post: "... at popular-most popular- prices...
...think their daughter could have done a lot better than marry that young doctor. The young doctor's old father takes the second act pretty much into his own hands and creates a lot of disturbance by meretricious advertising in the papers, fake patients, and what not. Egon Brecher, the German who did the title role, was rumored to be considerable of a comedian. After the performance critics stated that the rumor was unfounded. The play survived four nights...