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The new organization became public knowledge when it was legally constituted in
January 1919. The membership was identified as Moeller, Westley, Langner, Peters, and Myers, with Lee Simonsen, Ralph Roeder, Helen Freeman, and Justus Sheffield. The first Theatre Guild headquarters was at the Washington
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Langner says that the Theater Guild came about by chance, when he ran into Moeller and Helen Westley in the basement cafe of the Brevoort Hotel on December 18, 1918. The three of them had a lively chat at which the idea of a new theater company was put forth. A few days later they met with
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He was born in
Manhattan to Frederick K. Moeller and Rachel Phillips Moeller. His father, a naturalized US citizen from Germany, was a dealer in raw silk and wool, while his mother was a New York-born daughter of English immigrants. Moeller was the fourth of five children, one of whom died very
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Rollo Peters at the home of
Josephine A. Myers to discuss the concept. The plan they discussed encompassed a wholly professional company, run by an executive committee, to produce only long plays of merit, at a reasonably-priced mid-size theater.
174:. Local papers recorded ten-year-old Philip and his older brother Harry selling tickets for an amateur benefit performance. Two years later he played a court jester for the children's portion of another benefit, and again the following year.
181:, where according to Lawrence Langner's memoir he excelled at toe-dancing. His parents had passed away by February 1903, but Moeller and his three surviving siblings continued living together in the family home for the next seven years.
167:; during summer, performers were visible through open windows. In his early years the household included three servants, a nurse, and a coachman. Later, the family moved to Central Park West, where they made do with just three servants.
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