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Actress Katherine Cornell wrote to Soviet People's Artist Alia Tarasova. Industrial Bridgeport, Conn, sent greetings to the citizens of industrial Gorki...
Died. Frank Gillmore, 75, theatrical favorite from the '80s through the 1900s, co-founder and longtime president of Actors Equity Association; in Manhattan. He was leading man to Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Alia Nazimova, was the father of Actress Margalo Gillmore...
...essence of Escape was its tingling suspense. A great German actress (Alia Nazimova), who returned from the U. S. to sell her property, is sentenced to death by the Nazis for some inadvertent but illegal financial finagling. Her U. S.-born son (Robert Taylor), sniffing along her hidden trail, discovers her plight only a few days before the execution. The nerve-racking series of events which constitute his blundering, inept attempts at rescue are enough to frazzle the composure of the most hardened cinemaddicts...
...with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...
...copiously in black slacks in an audience-less studio, wasted wordily away at the finish like a traditional Camille. Mightily pleased with the play, the playwright and a medium which let her hold most of the stage for a full hour without a single program or gum wrapper crackling, Alia Nazimova let out a secret. "Always," she confessed, "I have hated audiences. Always...