Word: michailovitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base of the Palace will be marble and granite; the rest, tufa, a purple-red volcanic stone found in the Caucasus. Lenin's statue will be aluminum or chrome steel. Including the statue, the building will be 1,361 ft. high (Empire State: 1,248 ft.). Boris Michailovitch Iofan is one of U. S. S. R.'s best-loved architects. Dark-eyed, black-haired, his energetic, agile figure is recognized everywhere in Moscow. Married and childless, he lives in a modern four-room apartment for which he pays 60 rubles per month (including telephone, radio, gas & light...
Thunder Over Mexico (Upton Sinclair) is a feature length null picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into...
...Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein, greatest of Soviet cinema directors, returned from two years in Hollywood and Mexico last spring, found to his consternation that he could no longer make serious films such as The Armoured Cruiser, Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. Instead, last week Comrade Eisenstein was filming belly laughs...
Married. Prince Vassili Alexandrovitch Romanov, 24, nephew of the late Tsar Nicholas II, son of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch of Russia; and Princess Natalie Galitzine, 23 ; at Whitestone, Long Island...
...Amkino). To Manhattan last week came Producer Jesse L. Lasky and Director Sergie Michailovitch Eisenstein aboard the Enropa. In Director Eisenstein's pocket was a contract with Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. to direct their pictures, use his original art?an art of faces. Instead of finding an actor whose physical equipment, intelligence and training fit him to play a given part, Eisenstein looks for a human being who will be the part, whose performance in front of the camera will not be acting but a continuation of the life which that person lives daily. It is a method which...