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...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...
...Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, that you have, both covered the 350-odd short stories, the six full-length plays. Of the six, four have been produced in Manhattan since autumn: The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and, last week, Uncle Vanya. Presented with artistic piety by Producer Jed Harris, Uncle Vanya was ecstatically received by confirmed Chekhovians. In addition, cinemagoers had the opportunity of beholding birdlike Cinemactress Lillian Gish in the flesh...
Author Sinclair tells of the rise to Success of one Jed Rusher, a Western farmer's boy who dreamed of power, worked for nothing else, insinuated himself into a rich man's family, made $50,000,000 before he was 30. Lulu Belle Macy, the rich man's daughter, wanted to know how babies were made, wanted to have one herself to play with. Jed would not tell her how it was done, neither would her mother, so she enquired elsewhere. When she was pregnant Jed married her. It gave him the step up he needed; all went well. Business...
Born. To Actress (Coquette, Dancing Mothers) Helen Hayes MacArthur and Co-Playwright (Front Page, Lulu Belle, Salvation) Charles MacArthur; a daughter; at Manhattan. Last year producer Jed Harris closed Coquette because of Miss Hayes' approaching maternity. When Actors' Equity Association sued, he claimed the baby was "an act of God''; lost the suit (TIME., Sept...
...Saturday Night Kid (Paramount). As Stage Producer Jed Harris' first play, when it was called Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, this was a gentle story about some young people who worked in a department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed...