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...manager's secretary blenched. The shopper was indeed Daniel G. Sulimov, since 1930 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, comprising nine-tenths of the Soviet Union. Before becoming the equivalent of Pre- mier of an area two and one-half times as big as the U. S., he had headed the Soviet commission inspecting U. S. railways, had been Vice Commissar of Transportation. When the manager of Store 134 came cringing into view, Premier Sulimov roared, "Do you call this soap?" and hurled the handful on the floor...
...years ago, Russia contributed the Moscow Art Theatre; last season, Italy gave us Duse; Firmin Gémier and his Odéon troupe are the famous foreigners who talk to the playgoer in an unfamiliar tongue this season. Their talk is French...
...versed in the French Theatre asserted that the company was not the Odeon's "original." These same students agreed that it was, nevertheless, satisfactorily representative. To culture-seeking but untraveled Americans, it seemed a keenly trained troupe depending on team work rather than individual brilliance. Firmin Gémier, they thought, was an exceptionally intelligent actor of about the calibre of their own Henry Miller...
...mier was born in 1865, was a young lad when Germany laid seige to Paris. He was brought up to be a parfumeur, for, as his parents remarked, il y a la beaucoup d'argent a gagner. Unfortunately for the perfumery business, and fortunately for the theatre, the youthful Gémier developed an immense facility for mimicry. Once he imitated his employer so successfully that the latter, arriving inopportunely, became angry and instantly discharged...
...their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre de la Nation. Here in the Quartier Latin is the Paris which lives in intimate acquaintance with the past. And in the Odeon, the fertile mind and the strong voice of M. Gémier resurrects that past in a spirit that is psychologically human...