Word: sokoloffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen in public with it. Hastily recommending a new conductor and a shakeup in personnel, Director Sokoloff left town...
...behind the Illinois Symphony's sudden artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving...
...somehow struck the fancy of modern revolutionaries in the theatre, was produced in German in Manhattan by Max Reinhardt in 1927. It reveals the "moderate" Danton (Martin Gabel), weary of bloodshed, broken in purpose, fallen in power, propelled toward the guillotine through the fanatical ardor of Robespierre (Vladimir Sokoloff), the Incorruptible. After the knife has fallen, Robespierre's man Friday, Saint-Just (Orson Welles), defends the rigors of revolution in a speech of flame...
...confused with Federal Music Project Director Nicolai Sokoloff...
Pepel (Jean Gabin), a handsome thief, lives in a basement flophouse run by a receiver of stolen goods, Kostylev (Vladimir Sokoloff) and his wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly...