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...From Cleveland came word of the big gest individual bond buyer of World War II: a ruddy, superquiet stock speculator named Harry William Hosford, who had cleaned up in both the bull market of the early '20s and the bear market of the early '30s. Once a cabin boy on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Hosford now unostentatiously bought in one whack $21,-000,000 worth of bonds. (Later he disclosed he had bought $11,000,000 in bonds last fall.) Cleveland newspapers had never before printed Harry Hosford's picture, had not mentioned his name...
...work in America was "The Miracla," sponsored by Morris Gest. This play, aside from its dramatic significance, was famed for Reinhardt's reproduction of an actual cathedral on the stage...
Died. Morris Gest, 61, veteran impresario, spectacular theatrical producer; of a heart attack following pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most...
...their money to invest and sent others to him. His church affiliations were helpful too; several ministers advised members of their flock to put their worldly goods in his care. All in all, he acquired over 160 clients, among them such distinguished old Philadelphia names as Biddle. Chew, Bullitt, Gest, Truitt, Pilling. During the parlous days of New Deals I and II they were gratified at their lucrative returns from "Honest Bob" Boltz's private...
...husband, Sergei, are White emigres from Russia, where they "lost nearly all that is dear to anyone-country, home, family, wealth and social standing." Soon as they arrived in the U. S., in 1923, Sergei was offered a $250-a-week job as an actor, in Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins of a nun." The Goritzins, who spoke emigre...