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The Many Lives of Otto Kahn A Biography Margaret Ryan DescriptionHere 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. AuthorsMargaret Ryan:
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