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...ancestors surely looked on Svetovit, three-headed God of Plenty, symbolized by sun and bull. He has the boundless Slavic intensity and energy which make the leaders of his race indefatigable in labor, irresistible in personal charm. Years ago, in Paris, his posters of Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda and La Samaritaine took him pyrotechnically to fame. They were graceful of line, palely florescent of decoration, for which he has a penchant at once Pre-Raphaelite, Russian. Feted as he was with Parisian fanfares, he returned regularly to the quietude of central Europe, to that Slavic ridge which is saturated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Slav Epic | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...charter members of the company. She played Pastora and Miss Mercy in the plays of those names produced in 1921, and took the part of Judy in "A Punch for Judy", in the same year. What has been considered one of her finest interpretations was that of Gismonda, an Italian lady of the Renaissance period, in "Torches", one of the plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CATSKILL DUTCH" WILL HAVE PUBLIC PRODUCTION WITH EXPERIENCED CAST | 2/15/1923 | See Source »

...Maggie, Bettie La Mont Jane, Bcula Auerbach Jake, H. F. Carlton 1G. Mike, J. L. Hotson '21 Don Marguerite Barr Mrs. Multoon, Doris Halman Old Woman, Vianna Knowlton "The Slump." James Madden, Walter Butterfield '20 Mrs. Madden, Ruth Chorpenning Edgar Mix, W. B. Leach '22 "Man's Greatest Hunger." Gismonda, Dorothy Sands Alisandro, J. W. D. Seymour Pietro, Harding Scholle Occ. Madenna Gioulia, Doris Holman

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 47 WORKSHOP CASTS FOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR SPRING | 1/24/1920 | See Source »

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