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Died. Alexander Moissi, 54, trilingual actor (Italian, French, German) famed for his performances under Max Reinhardt; of pneumonia; in Vienna. In 1927 and 1928 he played in the U. S. in Everyman, Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ghosts...
...over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their way to hidden destinies...
...Royal Box (Warner). A Frenchman's play about an English actor is now translated into German, so that famed Alexander Moissi can play it. But The Royal Box was not made in Germany but at Flatbush, N. Y. in the old Vitagraph studio where the late John Bunny and the Talmadge girls did their first work. It is Dumas' story of how Edmund Kean insulted the Prince of Wales from the stage because the Prince had made Kean's beloved sit in the Royal Box at a performance of Hamlet. Moissi rants in his best manner, letting...
Alexander Moissi's Italian mother taught him her tongue without much opposition from his Albanian father, so he still speaks German with a faint trill in his r's and an insufficient guttural. In Trieste he went to the only Italian Real-gymnasium where the pupils did not have to learn Latin and Greek. His ancestors had all been solid people, merchants, physicians, even one general, but he decided to be an actor. After a while in stock, he convinced Max Reinhardt that he was a good actor, thus adding to Reinhardt's reputation for "discovering" talent...
...stupor on a couch, he forms no such abandoned arabesques with his body as did John Barrymore, who acted an adaptation of this play (Redemption) several years ago. Deliberate, warm, avoiding histrionism. the current Fedya invites comparison rather with the splendid performance given by the famed German actor Alexander Moissi during last year's visit to Manhattan...