Word: gests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday evening the Advocate Building was stormed by a crowd of 200 eager, self-confident Harvard students; last night, 50 of these men had been rewarded for their ardor by Morris Gest and his assistants, who granted the students parts in the Miracle...
...Gest Staged U.S. Premiere...
...American premiere was staged by Morris Gest, who started his life in this country as a newsboy kin Harvard Square. The Century Theatre in New York was converted into a cathedral and the opening took place on January 15, 1924. During its 10-months run in New York the box office receipts totalled almost two and a half million dollars...
...Morris Gest announced that the Moscow Musical Studio (which, having completed a successful season at Leningrad, last week began another in Berlin) will come to Manhattan under his management for a seven weeks' season in December, bringing all its stage settings, its own chorus masters and conductors, and attended by one Yasloff Gremislavsky, "the World's Greatest Living Master of Makeup." The Studio, a guild which comprises actors, danceVs and operatic stars, will present its full repertoire, including: Lecocq's The Daughter of Madame Angot; Aristophanes' Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian...
Producer Morris Gest pursued the famed Director with a document from the Equity Players inviting him to come...