Word: petrova
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
...Mauretania (Cunard)?Howard Carter, famed discoverer of Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb; Medill McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois ; Olga Petrova, actress...
Hurricane. "Of Petrova, by Petrova, and for Petrova" might be summoned as a phrase to explain this curiously tragical mixture. The handsome Olga wrote it last year and played it for the first time last week. It is obviously an "actory" part, conceived by one more cunning in stage interpretation than in stage creation. Yet through it runs an uneven strain of fierce vitality. For the moments when this strain is uppermost the play is valuable...
Like the play Petrova's performance was uneven. Yet so very well did she comport herself in the essential moments that her work seemed to many the best of her career...
Others describe their favorites?Olga Petrova, "dignified but not ritzy"?Lew Cody, "a highly polished gentleman and a lovely person to meet" "petite little Jackie Saunders," etc. A college girl bought a liberty bond from Mary Pickford? "a thrill that comes but once in a life time." A waitress in a tearoom who waited on Eugene O'Brien had him write his name in her Spanish book which "It is useless to say, I shall never sell...