Word: studio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Manhattan, W. E. Harmon gave $50,000 to endow a cinema company?the Religious Motion Picture Co., which will produce films to be used as religious propaganda. No scenario, studio, actors or plan of action has yet been chosen. These things will come in time," said Mr. Harmon. "We have the money. That is the important thing...
...Beatty stood up near the pulpit and facing him, packed along wooden forms like rooks on a wire, were all the famed Art collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching a wink that raised the bid by several hundred...
Born in Vienna, he won a prize at the Royal Academy, Berlin, began his career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
...captain of the 1925-26 hockey team will be chosen at a meeting of the squad this when the team picture is made at Norman's studio. The men who will be eligible for the captaincy are Thayer Cammings '26, W. P. Ellison '27, C. S. Gross '27, Nathaniel Hamlen '27, Willard Howard '27, N. S. Howe '26, J. L. Newell '26, L. O. Pratt '26, R. S. Scott '27, and Isadore Zarakor...