Word: pichel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their production. The play was given in the Pasadena Community Playhouse, a theatre endowed by local patrons for the highly able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks of all kinds. Irving Pichel, deep-voiced and deliberate, made a splendid Lazarus. Gilmor Brown, who organized the Pasadena Players some ten years ago, played Tiberius and acted as director. His handling of mob scenes, much after the methods of Max Reinhardt, was always effective...
...achieved a marked success at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with which he is connected. Among his best-known recent productions have been "John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg," which is now running there. Mr. Simonson has been connected in his work with S. J. Hume '13, Irving Pichel '14, R. E. Jones '10 and others well known in the theatrical world. While in the University Mr. Simonson was a member of Professor G. P. Baker's English...