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When Leon Gordon was forced by a legal engagement to quit the organization meeting of the Theatregoers, Morris Gest made one of his few public appearances. The members of the embryo club, when told of Mr. Gests advent, were incredulous. Ten unbelievers left the meeting...
...bone in the cinema. There is a desert, a strong husband, a capturing villain and a subtitle that reads: "You bought me with a handful of nuggets, and then you drove me before you across the desert like a beast." This from the play. Chu Chin Chow. Morris Gest delivered this spectacle several years ago. London luxuriated in it for endless performances. It was a big sheik adventure with lots of girls and a minor supply of costumes. The picturesque Oriental attributes of the story-caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema. Betty Blythe...
Bakst liked the costumes of the American Indians. Striking color values he saw in them, grand material for a U.S. ballet. He confided his ambition to design such a ballet to Morris Gest, producer; also discussed plans by which he was to design scenery and costumes for a new play by D'Annunzio, Italian poet, starring Ida Rubenstein, famed dancer, staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov...
...Majestic (White Star)-Andrew W. Mellon; Morris Gest; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore...
Comedie Francaise?There is a well-defined suspicion, unverified by actual announcement, that Morris Gest, modern Barnum, has persuaded this most famous theatrical organization in the world to come to Manhattan for a brief season...