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Otto Kahn

Author : Theresa M. Collins
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620219
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Otto Kahn written by Theresa M. Collins and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

The Many Lives of Otto Kahn

Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918728364
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives of Otto Kahn written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : John Kobler
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Otto, the Magnificent written by John Kobler and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Interview with Otto H. Kahn on Operatic and Dramatic Art in America and Other Art Topics

Author : Otto H. Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book An Interview with Otto H. Kahn on Operatic and Dramatic Art in America and Other Art Topics written by Otto H. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

High Finance

Author : Otto H. Kahn
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book High Finance written by Otto H. Kahn and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "High Finance" is a speech about the principles, mistakes, and trends of financial markets given in 1916. The author of this book, Otto H. Kahn, addresses the need for professionals in the Finance Industry to be just that: professional. He urges those in the field to act with morality and in an ethical fashion. He recognizes that the positive transformation of the character of financial professionals will be essential in restoring the image and worth of private finance in the eyes of the public.

Right Above Race

Author : Otto H. Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right Above Race written by Otto H. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remarks of Mr Otto H. Kahn of New York, at the Weekly Luncheon of the American Club of Paris

Author : Otto Hermann Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Remarks of Mr Otto H. Kahn of New York, at the Weekly Luncheon of the American Club of Paris written by Otto Hermann Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Otto H. Kahn

Author : Douglas Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Otto H. Kahn written by Douglas Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raising a Fallen Treasure

Author : Robert B. King
Publisher : Amereon Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Raising a Fallen Treasure written by Robert B. King and published by Amereon Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Architecture

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232539
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.

Jacques Copeau's Friends and Disciples

Author : Thomas John Donahue
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433101663
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Jacques Copeau's Friends and Disciples written by Thomas John Donahue and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Some Philanthropies of Otto Kahn

Author : Kent Kreuter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Some Philanthropies of Otto Kahn written by Kent Kreuter and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remarks by Otto H. Kahn at the Meeting of the Drama League of America on February 9th, 1915

Author : Otto H. Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Remarks by Otto H. Kahn at the Meeting of the Drama League of America on February 9th, 1915 written by Otto H. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oheka Castle

Author : Joan Cergol
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738592420
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Oheka Castle written by Joan Cergol and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructed in 1919, OHEKA CASTLE, Long Island's largest Gold Coast mansion, was once described by the New York Times as the finest country house in America. Enrico Caruso sang in its grand ballroom, and Arturo Toscanini lifted his baton to its soaring ceiling. Appearing as the mysterious mountaintop castle in the opening scenes of the film classic Citizen Kane, its majestic edifice and meticulous grounds continue to dazzle the screens of major Hollywood movies and television shows. It was a playground for the rich and famous of the Gilded Era, when heads of state, royalty, stage and screen stars, great comedians, and bohemians alike cavorted about its great halls. In subsequent years, it became home to an eclectic array of occupants, including New York City sanitation workers, World War II radio trainees, military school cadets, and eventually vandals and squatters. After its abandonment and descent into unrecognizable ruin, a Long Island developer with an appreciation for history reversed the adverse effects of time and neglect, transforming OHEKA into the largest restored home in America.

The Blacksmiths Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Blacksmiths Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raising a Fallen Treasure

Author : Robert B. King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848802875
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Raising a Fallen Treasure written by Robert B. King and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jews in America Trilogy

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038959
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Jews in America Trilogy written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three New York Times bestsellers chronicle the rise of America’s most influential Jewish families as they transition from poor immigrants to household names. In his acclaimed trilogy, author Stephen Birmingham paints an engrossing portrait of Jewish American life from the colonial era through the twentieth century with fascinating narrative and meticulous research. The collection’s best-known book, “Our Crowd” follows nineteenth-century German immigrants with recognizable names like Loeb, Sachs, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. Turning small family businesses into institutions of finance, banking, and philanthropy, they elevated themselves from Lower East Side tenements to Park Avenue mansions. Barred from New York’s gentile elite because of their religion and humble backgrounds, they created their own exclusive group, as affluent and selective as the one that had refused them entry. The Grandees travels farther back in history to 1654, when twenty-three Sephardic Jews arrived in New York. Members of this small and insulated group—considered the first Jewish community in America—soon established themselves as wealthy businessmen and financiers. With descendants including poet Emma Lazarus, Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, these families were—and still are—hugely influential in the nation’s culture, politics, and economics. In “The Rest of Us,” Birmingham documents the third major wave of Jewish immigration: Eastern Europeans who swept through Ellis Island between 1880 and 1924. These refugees from czarist Russia and Polish shtetls were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the “old country” to be accepted by the well-established German American Jews. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined. Their incredible rags to riches stories include those of the lives of Hollywood tycoon Samuel Goldwyn, Broadway composer Irving Berlin, makeup mogul Helena Rubenstein, and mobster Meyer Lansky. This unforgettable collection comprises a comprehensive account of the Jewish American upper class, their opulent world, and their lasting mark on American society.