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...making of Salzburg, his childhood home, an annual August rendezvous of everyone at all Art conscious, lurked in his Festspielhaus, directing a rehearsal of Turandot, is proverbially averse to being photographed. Came a little Jew, "the slickest Jew on earth," the uncrowned Barnum of the Drama. Mr. Morris Gest, in genial mood, volunteered to get Cartoonist Barton and his camera into the Festspielhaus where never a cinema camera had clicked before. Mr. Gest succeeded. Max Reinhardt threw up his hands: "There is no stopping you Americans!" Max Reinhardt posed. Flickering light rays imposed upon the film the likeness...
Married. Elinor Medill Patterson, 22, daughter of famed editor-publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, Daily News (Manhattan) and Liberty (5? Magazine), recently starred by showman Morris Gest as the nun of Max Reinhardt's Miracle, graduate of Miss Spence's School; to Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., 29, son of socially prominent Russell Sturgis Codman, graduate of Groton and Harvard, noted international oarsman, successful Boston real estate broker...
...they burst in upon his parents at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., announced their secret marriage at Putnam, Conn., on the eve of her departure for Europe to confer with Max Reinhardt respecting future roles, Morris Gest having reputedly offered her a ten-year contract. Her husband will remain in the U. S., will row at the Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia...
...Gest walked restlessly back and forth in the hotel room hired for publicity purposes and then stopped suddenly with the remark, "I know it's impossible to convince the public that any theatrical producer is ever impelled by any other than trousers pocket motives. Most of the stuff that's put on the stage today would never be produced if it were not for the big financial income expected from it. But if it were true that I had no reasons for my work outside of money I would have spent the rest of my life putting on shows with...
...Gest Sick of Broadway Shows...