Word: gests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston Opera House--Moscow Art Theatre's Musical Studio, presented by Morris Gest...
...longest coattails pressed, its tallest collars starched. It bought new gowns. It ordered orchids and gardenias. It swept down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
...past month the famed showman, Morris Gest, has been endeavoring to convince Manhattanites that the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio of M. Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko (cofounder of the Moscow Art Theatre with Stanislavsky) represents the ultimate and perfect synthesis of the dramatic, lyric, pantomimic and scenic arts...
Upon close inspection of M. Dantchenko's synthesis of all the arts which can be crowded upon a stage and into an orchestra pit, it must be acknowledged that showman Gest's claim to have at length brought "singing actors" to the U. S. has been rather cruelly substantiated. So far the synthesized productions have been Lysistrata (TIME, Dec. 28, THE THEATRE), La Perichole and The Daughter of Madam Angot. On the basis of these sufficiently extensive samples, it may be definitely stated that, while the "singing actors" act with flawless and breath-taking ensemble perfection, they sing quite indifferently...
...first performance was given on May 16, 1920, after a prolonged and extensive period of experimentation. Thus the organization now assembled at the Al Jolson Theatre, Manhattan, is perhaps the youngest of the great theatrical and musical troupes of the world. Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations. The production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic...