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...more cultured organs of the U. S. press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...
...Theatregoers Club, organized last spring by members of the University interested in the drama from the point of view of the audience was well attended last spring, and several notable figures of the drama addressed its meetings. Morris Gest, producer of "The Miracle"; E. E. Clive, f the Copley Theatre; and Leon Gordon, author who sponsored the activities of the new organization...
...Morris Gest, harassed by a flood of details requiring his personal attention, tired and drawn after nearly three days of nerve racking work in preparing the ground for his greatest production which opens in the Boston Opera House next week, stopped giving orders and making decisions long enough, to touch briefly on the history and future of the "Miracle," his own work, and upon his ideas of college students...
...universities. Of course in the Continental cities and especially in Germany, where the Miracle was regarded as a great civic enterprise rather than an individual project for material gain, college and university students were better able to give freely of their time than any one else," continued Mr. Gest...
When questioned on his uncanny ability for accomplishing the generally conceded impossible in general and the 'Miracle" in particular. Mr. Gest made one of his characteristics impatient greater...