Word: stanislavski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...greatest in tradition and still richest in performance is the famous Moscow Art Theater. It thrives on the heritage of its founder and first director, Konstantin Sergeivitch Stanislavski. There are no extreme experiments in the Russian theater now, as there were in the '20s, but the most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses...
Died. Vladimir Nemirovich-Dantchenko, 85, co-founder and director of the Moscow Art Theatre; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The Moscow Art Theatre was the result of an 18-hour conversation in 1897 between Dantchenko, then a dramatic-art teacher, and a businessman named Constantin Stanislavski. It attained world fame with the help of writers like Chekhov and Gorky, hardily adapted itself to the Soviet scene...