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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

Tovarich-Marta Abba & John Halliday as two starving Russian nobles with a lot of money they cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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