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...Tractor, sensationally publicized symbol of the Five-Year Plan, has been breaking down badly this summer. Thus, even near the industrial centre of Odessa where repairs can be quickly made, 30% of all tractors in the region were reported by the Soviet Press last week "disabled...
...Schweitzer brothers are the third generation of a paper family. Grandfather Joseph Schweitzer used to live in Odessa, imported paper from France. His son. Peter Joseph Schweitzer, emigrated to the U. S., set up an importing business, later acquired a mill in France. William and Louis Schweitzer went to the University of Maine, majored in paper engineering, also worked in France. In a mill at Jersey City they make carbon paper and the thin tissue which radio manufacturers need for insulation. Their factory at Elizabeth was acquired in 1929. equipped for the manufacture of cigaret paper. Their method is modern...
General Electric is building, as part of a $100,000,000 contract, the four largest hydroelectric generators in the world (100,000 h. p. each) for installation some 200 miles from Odessa on the Dnieper River...
...family of Adlers -"the Barrymores of Jewry"-who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast was all-Adler; seven of the nine sons and daughters and one son-in-law of the late great Jacob Pavlowich Adler. Born in Odessa, Russia, in 1855, Jacob Adler became successively public official, journalist, actor in a barnstorming Jewish troupe. When he was 30 he migrated to the U. S., formed the first stock company to devote itself to serious Yiddish drama. He discovered Playwright Jacob Gordin, had him write vehicles for the troupe, among them...
Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel...