Word: balieff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chauve-Souris" production there are two inseparable parts. One is the rotund M. Balieff, the other the varied scenes which make up the performance, One without the other would make "Chauve-Souris" something quite other from that which tradition...
...current presentation at the Majestic Theatre has both features. Balieff is again before the curtain, speaking in English more broken than any that has been heard in many months. Each scene is introduced by a few words from this great round face, and the applause greeting its appearance before each selection is quite as loud as that which closed the preceding scene...
...cherished title "People's Artist of the Republic." Actor Kochalov adds to his large income by giving recitals in Moscow. His wife, Madame Litovtseva, is an actress and producer of the Moscow Art Company. Their son, Vadim, has been in the U. S. this season with Balieff's Chauve Souris. Actor Kochalov speaks no English, eats piles of pirojek* and drinks vodka freely without any sacrifice of his robust, Slavic dignity...
Majestic, March 4--"Chauve-Souris". The rotund Balieff imports his puppets for a new tour. Very entertaining the first time...
Finally, what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...