Word: gests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...track management announced last night that L. O. Combs '26 has received the George Gest Haydock Memorial Cup awarded to the man who turns in the best season's performance in the polovault. In the Harvard Yale dual track meet last spring Combs was the only Harvard representative to score in this event. He tied with Durfee of Yale for first place, both attaining the height of 12 feet. He was a consistent performer throughout the season...
...First and Second Academic Art Theatres (i. e., the so-called "Moscow Art Theatre" recently brought to the U. S. by astute Morris Gest). The same repertoire with which they appeared in the U. S., likewise the Prometheus and Oresteia of Aeschylus, a. d. Shakespeare's Hamlet...
Lyslstrata. The much-discussed Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio has finally arrived. In case you have not been a party to the discussion, let it be noted that this troupe is a musical offshoot of the Moscow Art Theatre with which Morris Gest some seasons back showed our confident citizens what time, brains and artistry could do for certain phases of theatrical production. There was only one moot point on the opening night; that was just where the musical feature came in. There were trumpets and a good supply of choral singing, but the play was in no sense...
...more cultured organs of the U. S. press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...
...Theatregoers Club, organized last spring by members of the University interested in the drama from the point of view of the audience was well attended last spring, and several notable figures of the drama addressed its meetings. Morris Gest, producer of "The Miracle"; E. E. Clive, f the Copley Theatre; and Leon Gordon, author who sponsored the activities of the new organization...