Word: egon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tolstoy and that other great Russian, Dostoievsky, were particularly apt to conceive. As acted by Jacob Ben-Ami and a large company of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre (including a witty bit by the directress herself), most of the values of this celebrated tragedy are apparent. Egon Brecher's depiction of Alexandrov, an artistic hobo with delusions of grandeur, is an uproarious triumph if you can overlook its tragic perspectives...
...Repertory's success. The major significance of the theatre is that it proves, like a corollary to the Theatre Guild, that fine dramatic art treated studiously, "artistically," is appreciated in Manhattan.? And though Miss Le Gallienne's chief associates?Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson, Leona Roberts, Egon Brecher and Paul Leyssac?would merit headlines anywhere, major credit for a serious venture which is one of Manhattan's greatest civic virtues, which has won all but the crustiest critics, must inevitably be Eva Le Gallienne's. At 30 she has become a prominent citizen...
...European conductors will make Chicago debuts-the Russian Emil Cooper, leader of the first Diaghileff ballet, since the Russian Revolution a resident of Paris; and Egon Pollak of the Hamburg Staatsoper...
THIS book by Mr. Ravage in which he recounts the story of the House of Rothschild cannot but evoke immediate comparison with the recent work of Egon Caesar, Count Corti dealing with the same subject. There is evident, indeed, in these two works the difference between two methods of biographical or semi-biographical exposition. Mr. Ravage is essentially the popularizer leaving out of the picture much that goes to make a complete panorama of the times and relations in which his central characters find themselves; Count Corti is essentially the historian, realizing the important part which character and heredity play...
...Author. Count Egon Caesar Corti, descendant of a noble Lombard house, a former officer in the Austrian cavalry, was the biographer of Leopold I of Belgium and Maximilian of Mexico. In his researches, the name of Rothschild recurred. Intrigued, he assembled more than 20,000 documents for use in this book, began preparations for a second volume...