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Less famous than The Cherry Orchard, but just as good, The Three Sisters pictures hopes and longings turning to frustrations and regrets. The three Prozoroff sisters and their brother Andrey live discontentedly in a dull provincial town. Olga, the eldest (Judith Anderson), is already half-doomed to schoolteaching and spinsterhood. Masha, the second sister (Katharine Cornell), is a bored neurotic married to a fatuous pedant. Irina, the youngest (Gertrude Musgrove), still high-spiritedly dreams of romance. Brother Andrey (Eric Dressier), an intellectual weakling, still dabbles with the idea of a Moscow professorship. They all have one thing in common...
Reticently Anderson. The spinsterish Olga of The Three Sisters rose to fame, 18 years ago, as the sultry siren of Cobra. Since then Australian-born Actress Anderson has played Lavinia Mannon in O'Neill's, Mourning Becomes Electro, the Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently...
...second time in eight months Princess Olga Troubetzkoi, late of the Philadelphia Social Register, was jugged in Manhattan, charged with running a high-toned bawdyhouse...
...Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from a $2,000,000 trust fund; to numerous relatives, friends, institutions, about...
...R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought a gentleman jockey friend a $250 set of store teeth. Husband Brazelle asked "reasonable support and maintenance." ∙ ∙ Princess Olga Troubetzskoi of the Philadelphia Social Register pleaded guilty to vagrancy when put on trial, charged with running a high-toned bawdy house in Manhattan...