Word: alias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry. She sends for the same alienist. So Bernard Mead returns to Pauquette, grimly reflecting that he has a few years left in which to study out his new transcendental existence alone...