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...street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details of the proposed building have been announced but its 65 stories will undoubtedly rank it with the world's highest. Cost of land and building is estimated...
...sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented by Morris Gest, directed by David Belasco. The locale was the gigantic Hippodrome, onetime scene of elephantine musical shows in which Annette Kellerman swam, Charlotte skated, Nat Wills buffooned. To see the story of the benign, miraculous Nazarene went a strange audience, women whose faces were chalky with rouge, men with creaking collars...
Another distraction from Passover thoughts in Manhattan, last week, was the production by Morris Gest, a Jew, of the Freiburg Passion Play (see p. 18). Editorialized the irate American Hebrew: "MORRIS GEST PLAYS JUDAS AT THE HIPPODROME. . . . Despite protests by Jews and non-Jews . . . Morris Gest carried through his program . . . the story of the Crucifixion which has caused more Jewish agony, persecution and oppression. . . . Were we a devout Christian [and had we seen the Gest production] we could never again look upon a Jew with kindliness and respect; the commandment. 'Love thy neighbor,' would definitely exclude Jews. . . . When two Jews...
...Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what...
...cinema business. Her father, a Moscow artist, used to let her watch rehearsals of the Little Theatre there when she was ten years old. When she was 16 she was one of four chosen out of 400 applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought her to the U. S. in the Moscow Art play, Carmencita and Her Soldier; when it was booked in Los Angeles she took a screen test. In California she played the role of the nun in the road company of The Miracle. She was in Forgotten Faces, The Street...