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...Majestic (White Star)?Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, sculptress; Cass Gilbert, famed architect; Max Steuer, famed Manhattan lawyer; Morris Gest, theatrical producer; Vassily Katchaloff, leading actor of the Moscow Art Theatre; Lee Shubert, theatrical producer...
...MIRACLE?Max Reinhardt and Morris Gest combine memorably to make religion a necessity...
...that historic achievement of Morris Gest's early career when, as publicity agent for Oscar Hammerstein, he proudly brought back from Europe a "stolid Berliner and his wife, sister and daughter, whom Gest bedecked in Moslem costumes, instructed to pray ostentatiously to the East every day on the boat coming over, and covered with fleeting fame by having them rejected at a Broadway hotel where they had tried to register as Abdul Kaffir and wives...
...Morris Gest, producer of The Miracle: "In a pamphlet, entitled An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism, I was accused of being an emissary of the Pope, an 'alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda.' Said I: 'I am proud of being a Jew, but I resent bitterly being described as a Judas. The Miracle is a work of art and not a religious propaganda...
...MIRACLE-Prodigal pomp and circumstance. Max Reinhardt and Morris Gest introduce Billy Sunday showmanship into religion...