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Died. Vladimir Nemirovich-Dantchenko, 85, co-founder and director of the Moscow Art Theatre; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The Moscow Art Theatre was the result of an 18-hour conversation in 1897 between Dantchenko, then a dramatic-art teacher, and a businessman named Constantin Stanislavski. It attained world fame with the help of writers like Chekhov and Gorky, hardily adapted itself to the Soviet scene...
Recently Mme Germanova received a letter of advice from V. I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, co-director of the Moscow Art Theatre. Excerpts: ". . . The Americans do not like artificiality, even though it may be beautiful. Sincerity in feelings comes foremost. Look at their charming cinema actresses - Lillian Gish (my favorite) ; Greta Garbo, the charming Janet Gaynor. Any overacting is quite out of the question! ... Do not be in a hurry to get rich. Do not be influenced by those who ring in your ears promises of hundreds of thousands. Be kind. Americans do not like evil and capricious people...
...health of lyric drama everywhere that I have undertaken to produce the Musical Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre," explained Morris Gest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Without some such stimulus as Dantchenko and his synthetic theatre are providing, the lyric drama would, I believe, drop to even lower levels than it has now reached and I doubt if ever before the public interest in opera has been much lower...
With a setting which represented plastically, with various unexpected levels and slopes, a Spanish interior the like of which has yet to be seen in Spain, the Nemirovitch-Dantchenko Moscow opera troupe (TIME, Jan. 11) presented last week their version of Mérimée's Carmen with a totally new Russian libretto and a totally new arrangement of the Bizet score...
...again evident that M. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko's "singing actors" act much better than they sing. From a purely auditory viewpoint the performance was scarcely more than worth attending. The eye, however, was caught, held and delighted by the perfect ensemble pantomime of the chorus, which lolled and sat about at various levels throughout most of the production, and provided a sort of "visual accompaniment" to the action which centred about the main characters...