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...year ago Alla Nazimova decided Scriptwriter Arch Oboler was a genius, requested him to write a radio play for her. Pleased that Nazimova shared a conviction that he himself had held for years, Oboler turned out an opus called The Ivory Tower, in which, for the union minimum of $21, Nazimova made her first appearance on the air. This week Oboler will present another famed actress in her radio debut. She is Elisabeth Bergner, who will run through Oboler's latest radio work, An American is Born...
Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Blanche Yurka, Albert Basserman; TIME, Nov.18...
...essence of Escape was its tingling suspense. A great German actress (Alia Nazimova), who returned from the U. S. to sell her property, is sentenced to death by the Nazis for some inadvertent but illegal financial finagling. Her U. S.-born son (Robert Taylor), sniffing along her hidden trail, discovers her plight only a few days before the execution. The nerve-racking series of events which constitute his blundering, inept attempts at rescue are enough to frazzle the composure of the most hardened cinemaddicts...
Those who still squirm under the political sermons of "Foreign Correspondent," "The Great Dictator," & Co. will distrust "Escape" for its subject matter alone. But with the exception of one outburst from anti-Nazi Nazimova ("whose tongue is her freedom"), there are no harangues on fascism in general; and the spectator is relied upon to hate the Nazis out of his own accord. In fact the rescuer of prisoner Nazimova is the uniformed concentration camp doctor, a Nazi and a lovable chap besides. As for the general, villain of the drama, he fills his part with such dignity and dapper looks...
Grey-bobbed Nazimova took to the microphone like a trouper reclaimed for a Billy Rose floor show, emoted copiously in black slacks in an audience-less studio, wasted wordily away at the finish like a traditional Camille. Mightily pleased with the play, the playwright and a medium which let her hold most of the stage for a full hour without a single program or gum wrapper crackling, Alia Nazimova let out a secret. "Always," she confessed, "I have hated audiences. Always...