Word: nazimova
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Cinema and stage folk run to large, expensive Christmas cards, with heavy silver paper and fancy typography. Alla Nazimova sends her signature, in red ink. Lily Pons puts a picture of herself in a folder of heavy silver paper, wrapped in cellophane. Eddie Cantor caricatures his large eyes, surrounded by holly wreaths. Helen Morgan sits on a piano, weeping and singing. George Gershwin caricatures his profile. Percy Crosby shows his "Skippy" kneeling by his bed, saying: "Dear God, it's funny how ya get to thinkin' of the old pals on Christmas...
Even when its stately Oriental pace tires, which it does particularly in the beginning of Act III, Actress Alia Nazimova as OLan commands respectful attention. It is her play. She it is who makes Wang Lung (Claude Rains) buy his first bit of land. Although Wang grows rich and soft as she grows sick and old, it is her death which brings Wang back to the good earth of his and her fore fathers...
...Good Earth, dramatized by Owen & Donald Davis from Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prizewinning novel; with Alia Nazimova, Earle Larimore...
...occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They, too, were going to see an O'Neill play-an important one backed by the resources of the world's most ambitious experimental theatre, performed by great Actresses Alice Brady and Alla Nazimova, the work of a mature genius...
...hate well, too. Ezra, general and judge, and his son Orin are expected home from the Civil War. One who wants Ezra back is his stark daughter Lavinia (Miss Brady). One who does not want him back, hates him, wishes him in his grave is his wife Christine (Miss Nazimova). Beautiful, full-blown, she has fallen in love with a seaman, Brant. It does not take long to find out that Brant is a Mannon, too. His father was Ezra's uncle, who got a hired girl in trouble, had to marry her and leave town. Lavinia, who finds...