Word: firmin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week day.) The organ was designed by Mr. Firmin Swinnen, noted concert organist, who plans and executes the weekly concerts at Longwood...
...years ago, Russia contributed the Moscow Art Theatre; last season, Italy gave us Duse; Firmin Gémier and his Odéon troupe are the famous foreigners who talk to the playgoer in an unfamiliar tongue this season. Their talk is French...
Students versed in the French Theatre asserted that the company was not the Odeon's "original." These same students agreed that it was, nevertheless, satisfactorily representative. To culture-seeking but untraveled Americans, it seemed a keenly trained troupe depending on team work rather than individual brilliance. Firmin Gémier, they thought, was an exceptionally intelligent actor of about the calibre of their own Henry Miller...
...express invitation of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, acting in the name of the U. S. Government, M. Firmin Gémier, who has for many years been the director of Le Theatre National de I'Odéon of Paris, arrived in the U. S. to produce some of his famous plays. The invitation was not merely a courteous act toward M. Gémier, but a gracious recognition of France...
November is to be a gala month in the history of the American theatre. In response to an invitation from Secretary Hughes, M. Firmin Gemier, director and leading actor of Le Theatre National de l'Opera of Paris, is coming to New York with a considerable part of his company for a visit to the American stage...