Word: jed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle Vanya" was given last year by the Theatre Guild in New York at the Shubert Theatre and was produced by Jed Harris. Lillian Gish was starred in the part of Helens and Eugene Powers in the role of Alexander Serebrakoff...
Wonder Boy is a savage, undisciplined, hilarious comedy of the cinemindustry, presented in the breathless manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed...
...Wiser They Are is Producer Jed Harris' lightest comedy to date. It is eminently agreeable, very amusing. Osgood Perkins left the cast of Philip Barry's Tomorrow & Tomorrow to take the part of Bruce Ingram. Urbane Mr. Perkins, whose dramatic touch is deft and definite, is quite at home under the Harris aegis. He was the kinetic editor of the now almost legendary Front Page, also the frustrated doctor of Uncle Vanya...
...play called Kevizor was produced in their country to expose "all that was bad in Russia." Playwright Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol died in Moscow 16 years later after further distinguishing himself with the great novel Mertvuiya Dushi (Dead Souls), and after exhausting himself on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Producer Jed Harris revived Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME...
...scene design and lighting and for technical direction of all productions of the school the services of Arthur P. Segal of New York have been secured. Segal has designed settings for plays produced by Jed Harris, Crosby Gaige and Edgar Seiwyn. He was formerly associated with he Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and last year designed for the Newark Art Theatre. He has taught Stage Design in the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and in Europe. He was the consultant illuminating engineer for the new ballroom of the Steamship Leviathan, the ballroom of the Hotel New Yorker...