Word: anton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gull (by Anton Chekhov; produced by The Theatre Guild Inc.). One of the things important actors can do is to get a hearing for important plays. When Chekhov's Sea Gull was revived last week with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the cast, it instantly became news as well...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne have abandoned "Amphitryon," and come to Boston to fill roles, not subordinate but also not outstanding, in Anton Chekhov's "The Sea Gull." An odd assortment of characters, splendidly delineated, are mixed together, and allowed to react. The plot is thus simply a series of their chance encounters and repulsions, and seems devoid of design. The characters are all more or less frustrated, and the events produced out of them are all gloomy. But the play, though discursive and depressing, is packed with incidental dramatic values of great force, and contains several large chunks...
...Herbert Wilcox) is the trade name of a light-footed, light-fingered, essentially noble Paris Apache with a Viennese accent (Anton Walbrook), whose associations with 1) a maiden pure of heart (Renee Ray), 2) a fancy lady (Ruth Chatterton), and 3) a predatory stuffed shirt (Hugh Miller) leave Montmartre's half-world a better place to live in. The Rat was originally (1924) a pot-boiled play by England's Constance Collier and Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello. On the screen it is still the same lukewarm dish...
...fact that in July Yugoslavia refused to renew Reuters' Harrison's residential permit after he had lived in Yugoslavia 14 years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with the Vatican. Subsequently Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch permitted Mr. Harrison to remain in the country. Last week with Premier Stoyadinovitch in Rome, Acting Premier Koroshets was able...
Born in Poland in 1876, he began to learn the art of music in babyhood, and as a small boy studied with Anton Rubinstein. His career commenced when he was nine years old. Mr. Hofmann has composed music in large and small forms, and has written books on piano playing...