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Fortunately for Spellbound, Bergman smuggles her pathological hero upstate to her teacher and friend-cantankerous old Dr. Michael Chekhov (actor-director nephew of the late, great Anton) who resembles a kindly Sigmund Freud and so expertly milks his lines for humor that he steals scene after scene from Bergman's tense seriousness and Peck's dazed somnambulism...
...Heroine Olga, who married and divorced Michael Chekhov, is not to be confused with her distinguished aunt, Actress Olga Chekhova, widow of Michael's uncle, the great Anton Chekhov...
Died. Alia Nazimova, 66. Russian-born actress who specialized in Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler) and Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), onetime silent screen glamor girl (Salome), lately featured in character roles (Since You Went Away); of coronary thrombosis; in Hollywood...
...fair question to ask why at this moment the Russian theater is so retrospective-why new plays are being produced this season on Ivan the Terrible and on Admiral Nakhimov of the Crimean War; why so much reverence is accorded to Chekhov, who perhaps foreshadowed the Revolution in his plays but certainly satirized revolutionaries. It has been fashionable in America to attribute this to an abatement of Russia's revolutionary and communistic spirit. This seems to me wrong. A better guess is that this country, shaken within a few inches of its life by this war, has, like...
...nearness of victory brings with it a wonderful sense of relief and excitement which you can feel in the theaters. Chekhov's line near the end of The Three Sisters, "Tomorrow . . . a new life will begin for us," brings tears to Russian eyes. That is their real hope now. And yet, this confidence is not unmixed with uneasiness. The Russian theater knows it cannot detach itself from politics in the largest sense of the word. The other day Leonid Leonov suddenly broke off a discussion of play writing to say with great emotion: "But if in the world...