Word: nazimova
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...radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...
...occasion, Playwright Oboler had constructed This Lonely Heart, a doloroso radio fluoroscoping of the troubled soul of Tschaikowsky's ever-loving patroness, Mme von Meek (Nazimova...
...crusade for social consciousness is Producer Walter Wanger (rhymes with "ranger"), a presentable young Dartmouth man, a prime exception to the rule that a college education is an insuperable handicap in Hollywood. Wanger got into the movie business after a heterogeneous career which included producing a play for Nazimova, service as a War flier in Italy (where he cracked up so many planes he was known as "the Austrian ace"), and running Paramount's Eastern studio in the 19203. Three years ago, he astounded the industry by announcing that he and Mussolini planned to build a "cinema city...
...July 24, 1922 Seattle witnessed a memorable wedding. A thousand spectators were present in Woodland Park Zoo. The city's Nile Temple of the Mystic Shrine had outdone itself in pageantry. In first, attended by a burro named Nazimova, marched Potentate, young male camel lately imported from Shanghai by Shriner Hugh Caldwell, onetime Mayor of Seattle. He was joined by Nile, a female camel also brought from Shanghai by the Shrine, attended by a pony named Marguerite. When Imperial Potentate James McCandless of Hawaii pronounced them camel & wife, Potentate turned, gravely munched Nile's topknot bouquet of sweet...
...medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...