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Married. Marta Abba, 31, Italian-born actress (Tovarich), to Severance Allen Millikin, 42, poloist, director of Cleveland Trust Co., grandson of the late Steelman John Long Severance; in Cleveland...
...Marta Abba, the Grand Dutchess, although an Italian actress, speaks English with a thrilling Russian accent. She has all the fervor that the part requires, and her sudden shifts from the sublime to the petty are brilliant...
Rudolf Forster, an Austrian, makes his accent sound just like Miss Abba's, and he is just as splendid in his mad Russian gusto, although he shows the restraint befitting a prince consort. Equal praise is due the rest of the cast, as well as Robert Sherwood, who did the translation from the French of Jacques Deval...
Tovarich-Marta Abba & John Halliday as two starving Russian nobles with a lot of money they cannot...
...Actress Abba explains her success thus: "I am like a radio, a radio, that's what it is, is it not? I reach out and everything comes to me, and I am the receiver, and so I am sensible, is it not that? I feel the audience...