Word: gests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented by Morris Gest, directed by David Belasco. The locale was the gigantic Hippodrome, onetime scene of elephantine musical shows in which Annette Kellerman swam, Charlotte skated, Nat Wills buffooned. To see the story of the benign, miraculous Nazarene went a strange audience, women whose faces were chalky with rouge, men with creaking collars...
...Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what...
...cinema business. Her father, a Moscow artist, used to let her watch rehearsals of the Little Theatre there when she was ten years old. When she was 16 she was one of four chosen out of 400 applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought her to the U. S. in the Moscow Art play, Carmencita and Her Soldier; when it was booked in Los Angeles she took a screen test. In California she played the role of the nun in the road company of The Miracle. She was in Forgotten Faces, The Street...
...Manhattan last week there arrived a great actor, Alexander Moissi (Moy-see). The day after his arrival, he began to act in Max Reinhardt's production of Redemption, as produced by Morris Gest...
...Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late of Reinhardt's troupe, will appear, under the joint management of Edgar Selwyn and Morris Gest, in The Living Corpse...