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...Morris Gest announced that the Moscow Musical Studio (which, having completed a successful season at Leningrad, last week began another in Berlin) will come to Manhattan under his management for a seven weeks' season in December, bringing all its stage settings, its own chorus masters and conductors, and attended by one Yasloff Gremislavsky, "the World's Greatest Living Master of Makeup." The Studio, a guild which comprises actors, danceVs and operatic stars, will present its full repertoire, including: Lecocq's The Daughter of Madame Angot; Aristophanes' Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian...
Producer Morris Gest pursued the famed Director with a document from the Equity Players inviting him to come...
When Morris Gest, producer of the "Miracle" and the several editions of the "Chauve-Souris," was introduced, the students were exceedingly impressed with the importance of the club-to-be. Mr. Gest devoted his talk he insisted that it was no speech to an autobiographical narration...
Just after he came to this country Mr. Gest worked in Cambridge as a bootblack but he declares bootblacking in Cambridge an unprofitable profession. "Harvard men," he said, "either black their own boots or go without." He later secured a position in the Dorchester Opera House, where he worked as all-around handyman. Once he was the waves in a performance of "Way Down East," and was required to roll to and fro under a great canvas. His later experiences were more impressive, but less appealing...
...speech, Mr. Gest declared himself greatly in favor of the proposed organization of theatregoers. He advocated the education of the theatrical public. With great good humor he illustrated this, saying "When I was paged today by your chairman, the desk man at the hotel said, 'Sure I could recognize Mr. Guest if I saw him. You mean the poet...