The Many Lives Of Otto Kahn
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The Many Lives Of Otto Kahn
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Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 1984
The Many Lives Of Otto Kahn written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here was a man who was both equipped and disposed to be the most considerable Maecenas in the history of our theater, wrote Alexander Woollcott. It is the man behind that legend whom Mary Jane Matz brings. to life in this spirited biography. Otto Kahn, The King of New York in the twenties, had virtually created the city's new Metropolitan Opera with his enormous energy and financial backing. He was responsible for introducing Stanislavski, Nijinski, the Abbey Players, the Moscow Art Theater, and practically every other important personage and event in the most vigorous era of American theatrical history. He subsidized, sponsored, and had close relationships with Toscanini, Caruso, Chaliapin, Pavlova, Pirandello, Eugene O'Neill, Paul Robeson, Grace Moore, and hundreds of other artists whose names are now part of that history. This was the Otto Kahn whose fame lives on today-the man who was an activating force in American opera and theater for more than two decades. But there was another Otto Kahn, now less well known, who was more than a theatrical patron. The other Otto Kahn had amassed a banking fortune through his perspicuity and integrity in the era of unbridled Big Business, and had gone on to win the respect of the nation with his political, economic, and humanitarian activities in the First World War and its boom-and-bust aftermath. That Otto Kahn, a partner in the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb, was often accused of being a socialist.
Otto The Magnificent
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Author : John Kobler
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1988
Otto The Magnificent written by John Kobler and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Otto Kahn
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Author : Theresa M. Collins
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2002-07-08
Otto Kahn written by Theresa M. Collins and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. A partner at one of America's premier private banks, he played a leading role in reorganizing the U.S. railroad system and supporting the Allied war effort in World War I. The German-Jewish Kahn was also perhaps the most influential patron of the arts the nation has ever seen: he helped finance the Metropolitan Opera, brought the Ballets Russes to America, and bankrolled such promising young talent as poet Hart Crane, the Provincetown Players, and the editors of the Little Review. This book is the full-scale biography Kahn has long deserved. Theresa Collins chronicles Kahn's life and times and reveals his singular place at the intersection of capitalism and modernity. Drawing on research in private correspondence, congressional testimony, and other sources, she paints a fascinating portrait of the figure whose seemingly incongruous identities as benefactor and banker inspired the New York Times to dub him the "Man of Velvet and Steel."
Jacques Copeau S Friends And Disciples
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Author : Thomas John Donahue
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Jacques Copeau S Friends And Disciples written by Thomas John Donahue and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a remarkable adventure, Jacques Copeau brought the troupe of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier to the Garrick Theatre in New York City in the fall of 1917. During the next two theater seasons, he staged more than forty different plays in repertory in French. He experimented with the use of both the tréteau nu, a bare raised platform, for some of Molière's farces and the loggia or unit set for all his plays. Copeau's experiments with scenography mark this period as a critical moment in the evolution of stage décor both in the United States and in Europe. Moreover, his development of a full repertory - sometimes three new plays in a week - demonstrated to the United States' fledgling art theater movement how important a full repertory is for the actor's continued training. Jacques Copeau's Friends and Disciples brings to light the support Copeau received from a diverse group of personalities without whom his undertaking would not have been possible: Otto H. Kahn, financier and supporter of the arts; Mrs. Phillip Lydig, a grande dame of New York high society; Antonin Raymond, the Czech architect who renovated the Garrick Theatre; Daisy Andrews, Copeau's tireless factotum; Louis Jouvet, stage manager, actor, and scenographer; Charles Dullin, actor, director and teacher; Suzanne Bing, a member of the troupe who embodied Copeau's ideals; and lastly Agnès Thomsen Copeau, Copeau's loyal wife and companion. This study places the achievement of Copeau in the context of the developments of both European and American theater at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Raising A Fallen Treasure
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Author : Robert B. King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976-01-01
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Russian Culture And Theatrical Performance In America 1891 1933
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Author : V. Hohman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-08-29
Russian Culture And Theatrical Performance In America 1891 1933 written by V. Hohman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Kahns Of Fifth Avenue
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Author : Iain Cameron Williams
language : en
Publisher: Iain Cameron Williams
Release Date : 2022-02-16
The Kahns Of Fifth Avenue written by Iain Cameron Williams and has been published by Iain Cameron Williams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-16 with categories.
The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue: the Crazy Rhythm of Otto Hermann Kahn and the Kahn Family It was a time when money was plentiful. Dreams were hung on the wind. Those that had talent flaunted it, those that hadn't bought it. Alcohol danced to the rhythm of Prohibition. This was the Roaring Twenties and boy did they roar as no decade had done before. Jazz was all the rage. In New York City, at the center of the revelry was the Kahn family; banker and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn, his beautiful wife Addie, and their four spirited offspring, Maud, Margaret, Gilbert, and Roger. Theirs was a family of extravagance. For them, the 1920s inspired more dreams than they could have dared to imagine. With the gaiety came a price tag, accompanied by a soundtrack of jazz ... so much jazz. Merchant banker Otto Hermann Kahn was one of America's most generous patrons of the arts; he was also chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company and a connoisseur of Europe's avant-garde. When his teenage son, Roger, took up the baton as a bandleader, Otto and Addie hit the roof. Stories of the family's subsequent bickering and infighting graced the headlines for months. From that moment onwards, the Kahns became public property. Throughout the 1920s and '30s, their scandals, lawsuits, marriages, divorces, and deaths were splashed across the tabloids. So what really went on behind the closed doors of the Kahns' magnificent mansions? Where did all their wealth come from, and where did it go? And did Otto Kahn purchase a secret stash of stocks using an alias? These questions and more are answered in The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue: the true story of a family that dared to dream big. www.thekahnsoffifthavenue.com
Gentlemen Bankers
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Author : Susie J. Pak
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-10
Gentlemen Bankers written by Susie J. Pak and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family’s power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the twentieth century, private banking was a personal enterprise in which business relationships were a statement of identity and reputation. In an era when ethnic and religious differences were pronounced and anti-Semitism was prevalent, Anglo-American and German-Jewish elite bankers lived in their respective cordoned communities, seldom interacting with one another outside the business realm. Ironically, the tacit agreement to maintain separate social spheres made it easier to cooperate in purely financial matters on Wall Street. But as Susie Pak demonstrates, the Morgans’ exceptional relationship with the German-Jewish investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., their strongest competitor and also an important collaborator, was entangled in ways that went far beyond the pursuit of mutual profitability. Delving into the archives of many Morgan partners and legacies, Gentlemen Bankers draws on never-before published letters and testimony to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.
Dear Mark Twain
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-04-21
Dear Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.
Our Crowd
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Author : Stephen Birmingham
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Our Crowd written by Stephen Birmingham and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with History categories.
The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.
