Word: geste
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...Nikita Balieff came Morris Gest-in Paris...
...Will you," asked Morris Gest, "come to America...
Alicia Patterson, 20-year-old daughter of Publisher-Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the loud Chicago Tribune, louder New York Daily News and vulgar Liberty (weekly)*, is thought to favor her father. Her older sister, Elinor, took to the high art of drama when Producer Morris Gest found that she was ideal for the nun in his U. S. Miracle (TIME, Feb. 15, 1925). But journalism is good enough for Alicia Patterson. Some three months ago she undertook to gather pearls for the Daily News to cast before its million-odd readers...
...week ran -it, but no Morris Gest, or other enterprising producer, no Otto Kahn or other Maecenas, not even Patron Idea-man Edward W. Bok came forward to help Dr. Stokowski. People of the maddeningly practical turn of mind suggested that the ardent artist persuade his audiences to close the"ir eyes...
...sonorous. The Cardinal Archbishop and the rest of the notable company listened to an Epilogue ,that made clear the already too obvious moral of the piece and then hurried off to dress for a performance of Don Juan in the Salzburg theatre that evening. Messrs. Reinhardt and Gest returned to a rehearsal of Turandot. Critics next day were loud in praise of the "medieval color" of Herr Reinhardt's arrangement, of the quality of the musical accompaniment (by Einar Nilson, musical director of The Miracle). Only one commentator ventured to suggest that "most miracle plays are dull. . . ." Everyman amused...