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...health of lyric drama everywhere that I have undertaken to produce the Musical Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre," explained Morris Gest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Without some such stimulus as Dantchenko and his synthetic theatre are providing, the lyric drama would, I believe, drop to even lower levels than it has now reached and I doubt if ever before the public interest in opera has been much lower...
Died. Mrs. David Belasco, wife of the famed theatrical producer; of an apoplectic stroke, in the Manhattan home of her son-in-law, Producer Morris Gest...
Boston Opera House--Moscow Art Theatre's Musical Studio, presented by Morris Gest...
...longest coattails pressed, its tallest collars starched. It bought new gowns. It ordered orchids and gardenias. It swept down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
...first performance was given on May 16, 1920, after a prolonged and extensive period of experimentation. Thus the organization now assembled at the Al Jolson Theatre, Manhattan, is perhaps the youngest of the great theatrical and musical troupes of the world. Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations. The production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic...