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...partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting her honey's ear. Olga Baclanova has the best singing voice in the cinema business. Her father, a Moscow artist, used to let her watch rehearsals of the Little Theatre there when she was ten years old. When...
...Manhattan, Chairman Otto Kahn opened his house for an inaugural reception. Guests heard him speak on the scope of Schubert 'Week, heard Olga Samaroff outline the plans of a Schubert Memorial to help talented young U. S. musicians, heard Young Pianist Jerome Rappaport in evidence, heard the Musical Art Quartet. For refreshment then, there were vast quantities of paté de fois gras, chicken à la king, ice cream, cakes, cigarets, coffee. Some imagined later they had been served Scotch highballs, champagne cocktails, mixed by Brother Felix Kahn...
Three Comrades and 1 Invention is the first sample of Russian humor ever presented in the U. S. in cinema. The three comrades, one big, one little male and one, Olga Tretlakova, lusty and white-toothed female with no waistline, used an invention for making boxes as the mechanism for laughing at inventions, manufacturers, the Soviet government, country life. And U. S. audiences laughed at humor in the style of Gogol as heartily as in the past they have laughed at humor in the style of Sennett...
What the dying Empress whispered in reply could not be heard, but she managed to smile in farewell, and the big Cossack was led away by her physician, sobbing like a broken-hearted child. Present when Death came were the Empress's daughters, Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Xenia; with the latter's son Prince Vessli, members of the Danish Royal Family, and lastly Prince Dolgouriki, grizzled Major Domo, lifelong friend, faithful servitor...
Forgotten Faces (Olga Baklanova)? Olga Baklanova...