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...Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel...
Katerina. This latest addition to the programs of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre is further justification for the rediscovery of Alia Nazimova. It is more. Leonid Andreyev's play has been left behind by changing social codes but it retains a turbulent glow which shines through its drenching melancholy...
...parliamentarianism"; but the Socialist Vorwaerts sneered savagely at "the Surgeon-King who seeks to cure his sick state by plunging in the bayonet." Perhaps the most restrained and weighty comment came from Editor Arnaldo Mussolini (brother of Benito), who carries on the family newspaper Il Popolo d'It alia ("The People of Italy") in Milan...
...Cherry Orchard. Alia Nazimova, the most caricatured actress of her generation, returned, out of vaudeville and the cinemansions of the west, to the Civic Repertory Theatre in Eva LeGallienne's sensitive if not inspired production of Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is not especially adaptable to translation; its sly and sad description of improvident aristocracy, vaguely cheerful in the face of ruin, is a little forlorn in a strange tongue and a new country, as its people are forlorn in the airy chaos of change. The Civic Repertory did far better with...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Elsie Mackay Atwill of Manhattan; by Actor Lionel Atwill, 43, onetime leading man for Lily Langtry, Alia Nazimova, Grace George, and the Manhattan Theatre Guild, now of The Outsider...