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Married. Elinor Medill Patterson, 22, daughter of famed editor-publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, Daily News (Manhattan) and Liberty (5? Magazine), recently starred by showman Morris Gest as the nun of Max Reinhardt's Miracle, graduate of Miss Spence's School; to Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., 29, son of socially prominent Russell Sturgis Codman, graduate of Groton and Harvard, noted international oarsman, successful Boston real estate broker...
...mule (donkey and horse), as every one knows, is sterile and cannot reproduce his kind; likewise the "turken" (turkey and chicken) (TIME, Dec. 14, MISCELLANY), the "liger" and "tigon" (lion and tiger hybrids). This factor bears directly upon such hybrids' commercial value. Great would be the fortune of that showman who could advertise an "eleraffe" or "rhinocerdile," whether the animal was sterile or not. Greater would be that showman's fraud, however. It is impossible to cross animals not of the same order or family...
...past month the famed showman, Morris Gest, has been endeavoring to convince Manhattanites that the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio of M. Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko (cofounder of the Moscow Art Theatre with Stanislavsky) represents the ultimate and perfect synthesis of the dramatic, lyric, pantomimic and scenic arts...
Upon close inspection of M. Dantchenko's synthesis of all the arts which can be crowded upon a stage and into an orchestra pit, it must be acknowledged that showman Gest's claim to have at length brought "singing actors" to the U. S. has been rather cruelly substantiated. So far the synthesized productions have been Lysistrata (TIME, Dec. 28, THE THEATRE), La Perichole and The Daughter of Madam Angot. On the basis of these sufficiently extensive samples, it may be definitely stated that, while the "singing actors" act with flawless and breath-taking ensemble perfection, they sing quite indifferently...
...more cultured organs of the U. S. press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...