Word: gests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Elinor Medill Patterson, 22, daughter of famed editor-publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, Daily News (Manhattan) and Liberty (5? Magazine), recently starred by showman Morris Gest as the nun of Max Reinhardt's Miracle, graduate of Miss Spence's School; to Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., 29, son of socially prominent Russell Sturgis Codman, graduate of Groton and Harvard, noted international oarsman, successful Boston real estate broker...
...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...
...Gest walked restlessly back and forth in the hotel room hired for publicity purposes and then stopped suddenly with the remark, "I know it's impossible to convince the public that any theatrical producer is ever impelled by any other than trousers pocket motives. Most of the stuff that's put on the stage today would never be produced if it were not for the big financial income expected from it. But if it were true that I had no reasons for my work outside of money I would have spent the rest of my life putting on shows with...
...Gest Sick of Broadway Shows...
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...