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...Theater was conceived in an 18-hour café conversation between two fervent young men: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who became its administrator, and Konstantin Stanislavsky, its guiding spirit. Stanislavsky (whose dressing room is kept as he left it at his death in 1938) was a brilliant actor, director and author. He taught a new, true-to-life style of acting that was widely imitated. He built a large repertory of classics, trained his players as a team with no stars...
...outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown...
...student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent in Moscow and Berlin, he was a deputy director of OWI's overseas operations, a fellow traveler on Willkie's "one world" flight, and translator of Soviet Novelist Konstantin Simonov's Days and Nights...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
...seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government garrison in Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from Ioannina and half a dozen Communist roadblocks had been broken...