Original Don Cossack Chorus at the "Met"
Original Don Cossack Chorus at the "Met" TO GIVE 2 PERFORMANCES OCTOBER 5th AND 6th Officially opening the ieafon of activities at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Original bon, Cossack Chorus...
...That is the whole story, the incident thst made,me stop working as I read ths little item and its tinsel tribute to the "toast of world capitals...
...My mother had also seen Naximova, many years ago, recreate that perverse, brilliant, and passionate Hedda, the Ibsen girl of dramatic tragedy...
...You walk into the dressing room sheepishly and take th* extended hand and mutter something about a wonderful performance...
...She wa* a devil when in action...
...DOUBLE FEATURE AT 5fft AVENUE PLAT HOUSE The 5th Avenue Playhouse is now presenting Paul Robeson in his most famous musical film, "The Song of Freedom," a dramatic story set in London and Africa, with four original songs especially written for Mr...
...I remembered how my brother himself, white still a very young man at Yale, had parodied all backstage visitor* by making his way to'Maude Adams' dressing room and then, playing th* gawk, had gushed: "Oh, Miss Adams, I think you're . . . wonderful...
...Schmid in the film, with Eleanor Parker and Dane Clak sharing co-starring honors...
...Anderer, Mass...
...If you have- removed ray nam* from your subscription list, please send on ah one* any issues which I have failed to receive...
...We got to know her as . we got to know so many of the people with whom my brother played...
...In selecting her cast, she found my brother to play Luvbdrg, the tortured lover, opposite her...
...Then, as I sat down to work again, that tired old gag popped into my head, the one about things being so tough these dsys that people were dying now who never died before...
...STAGE PICTORIAL TO If COME A HOMTHLY MAGAZINE The autumn edition of Stag* Pic-farsaWkkh goes on sale through out tie United States on Friday, September 21, is ths lsst of the "fJMjrty issues...
...Principally because the names noted in the creative departments are of proven stature...
...I was content to gather th* anecdotes and to hold on to the remembrance of Naximova as the body thst flung itself about the stage, rousing and passionate, and yet was all controlled emotion and whiplash will...
...One night she pinched my brother energetically to see if he would giggle or cry out In the midst of a tense scene...
...She had been then a legend come to life, a great effulgent legend, as we touched hands, and I had never forgotten it...
...The overwhelming response was: "Make them sit through 'Girl No...
...Commencing with tM^hrletmaa number, out the middle of November« Stege Pictorial become* a monthly maga «im, -it was announced yesterday h ??1...
...I, am paying for thro* year* in advance to insure against anf possible- interruption...
...Then by one of those elating coincidences, Alia Naximova, although crowding sixty at the time, decided to revive Hedda...
...I knew that the point of ths joke was not in the dying, but in this—that she would never live again...
...1 Songwriters...
...Then a story catches pour eye, a story that touches you or points a finger at someone known or loved, and you come swake suddenly...
...McKay Morris, who can fill a stags with his presence, was standing at her side, a big man near a small woman...
...No, I thought, let ths star* remain In their heavens...
...It was more than regret at the loss of a great artist...
...In my mother's reminiscing, Naximova was second only to Bernhardt and for us it was all very vivid and exciting...
...Once toast of world capitals for her performencea in Ibsen and O'Neill plays...
...Your fingers pause at the typewriter as you let your mind move off alone for a while...
...STANLEY THEATRE HAS HIT An unusual survey was made at the Stanley, where the new Russian photoplay "Girl No...
...It is even more of a pleasure to reed when one realizes th* effort you and your staff must put into your work aince I hsv* never read an article or editorial that seemed in the slightest slipshod or s product of "fussy" thinking...
...The news comes to life...
...The associate feature on this program is Charles Boyer, Gaby Morlay and Michel Simon in the French comedy, "Le Bonheur" (Happiness), adapted from the play by Henri Bernstein...
...Such an item slipped into the news the other night, almost buried among the stories of United Nations chartem and Chinese advances that were rolling off the teletype...
...Then you leave, tripping over the sill, fading foolish and chested...
...One of their programs was given for the entire personnel of Supreme Allied Headquarters on July 12th, two days before Genersl Eisenhower announced its dissolution...
...26lk Out of the welter of announcements and rumors that flood Broadway each Fall the discerning playgoer is sometime able to note a projected play here and there that offers high promise of theatrical quality...
...I get up snd lit a cigarette and walked around the office a couple of times, fssling the weight of man's mortality...
...It was some-, thing personal because I hsd once' shaken hands with Naximova...
...In June they embarked on s tour of the European theatre of occupation during which they made almost forty appearances in two months...
...It was only last March that I becsme a New Leader subscriber...
...217" is now smashing all house records for attendance and receipts...
...But effulgent is about th* only word which can describe her...
...FOK MANY DECADES From EDW...
...I have been wrong before...
...PRIDE OF THE MARINES" 4tm WEEK AT STRAND "Pride of the Marines," Warner Bros.' drama based on the experiences of Sgt...
...217' twice...
...Dorfmsn, publisher...
...Naximova chose my brother for the patr 4 days before the New York opening, and during those 4 days they labored mightily to create an scute and bitter interpretation of the lost Luvborg and the frustrated Hedda — rehearsing 20 hour* a day over each gesture, each nuance of voice, each mood...
...So I trotted down to the train, but having stowed away his bags, my brother got restless and insisted on going into Nasimova'a drawing room where the rest of ths esst hsd gathered...
...She smiled at my brother and smiled at me and said the usual things about family likenesses while I made sounds which were meant to convey intelligible moaning...
...Been in Hollywood past few years...
...In •edition, there are articles on *?We Heart Actors," "War Vets «· te Drama School," "Royal Kam «af *f the Theatre," and a special nature on the Chicago critics who •wed "The Glass Menagerie...
...What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba...
...Such a play, so it is rumored, is "Deep Are the Roots" by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow, which opens at the Fulton Theatre on Wednesday, Sept...
...Robeson for this film...
...Now nearly five months have passed and you can count on my subscriptions as long as 1 have the three dollars a year to mail to you...
...Original Don Cossack Chorus at the "Met" TO GIVE 2 PERFORMANCES OCTOBER 5th AND 6th Officially opening the ieafon of activities at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Original bon, Cossack Chorus snd Dancers under the direction of Serge Jaroff, will be presented by S. ? urok in two concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings, October 5th and 6th...
...Fpr weeks, my brother brought horn* , stori** about Naslmova...
...This small woman, with a figurs held to youth mainly by will and a wrinklelees face, tight and parchment-like, certainly not beautiful, took my hand, and at contact some sort of impulse, almost electrical, shot out and only loveliness could be seen...
...LOS ANGELES—Alia Naximova, sixty-six, Russian-born actress, died today...
...Alia Naximova was dead...
...John Garfield portrays Sgt...
...Other movies running high in the poll included "The Rainbow," "Zoya" and "Maideneck...
...By all standards,Naximova was old — she had started playing Hedda before my brother was born—but by ths grace of a prodigious energy and with th* aid of ths plastic surgeon*, she could still look young snd powerfully attractive behind th* footlights...
...GOOD INSURANCE From B. D. ZEVTN To the Editor: I HASTILY enclose my check for $15 to cover three years' subscription to The Now Leader...
...If this is Naximova, I thought, what magnetism must have existed in the plain Inking, inspired Sarah...
...Added attractions include Gil Maison and his performing dogs and Bunny Briggs, tap dancer...
...Ohio...
...I cant say that I agree with every word of your foreign policy—but then again—who knows...
...Euclid...
...he was barely notice-abl* to me...
...Nazimova was dead, and neither ahe nor anyone like her would ever die hgsin...
...DEE* ARE THE ROOTS" OPENS AT FULTON THEATRE SEPTf...
...Or those moments of tempered steel when you could feel desth suddenly chill the air for 20 yards in front of th* footlights...
...When we discussed the theatre at home—and that was very often with a brother who was a rising actor—my mother would always talk of the immortal Sarah...
...Then it was train' tim* and 1 was back in Penn Station getting on the wrong train...
...C. MURPHY To tht Editor: JuST a word to let you know how thoroughly I appreciate your paper...
...Now and then my brother would urge me to meat him backstage after the show so that he could Introduce m* to Naximova...
...Al Schmid, Marine hero of Guadalcanal, continues 4th week at the New York Strand Theatre...
...The news moves through your finger*, but mor* than the stuff of history it means lieep lost and time down the drain...
...HOW I MET NAZIMOVA By RALPH DE TOLCD4NO Bendi i ng th* news dsy after day, editing and writing heads, sometimes falling asleep at the type writer from Weariness, ths big •vests of the world become something impersonal, dreary, almost repugnant...
...She had seen Bernhardt in Paris and in New York, and it was an unforgettable experience, rich in the dreams the theatre evokes...
...This will be their first appearance here since last October...
...We heard so much about it that it became a kind of family joke to tease ray mother about Bernhardt...
...And it touched me deeply...
...The new issue will have a star •tedded cast of writers including Iwa Chapman, who talks of "Broadway Angels," Thyra Samter "haaew, who contributes an sr-We, "A Star Is Reborn," snd a {km by U wis Funke on "The [fssstre's No...
...And I waa sad...
...But it was Naximova who dwarfed Morris...
...I had trotted down to Penn Station with my -brother, just to say goodbye and wish him luck and carry his bags, but when we got to the gate, he said, "Well, com* on down to the train until it leaves...
...Like all actors, ah* was busy ' acting, being the charming hostess to th* college-boy brother of her leading man...
...She tried to break them up by whispering remarks and jokes as they spoke their lines...
...Patrons were asked, after witnessing the performance of slave life in Germany: "What film would you compel all Germans to witness in an effort towards rehabilitation of the Nazi mind...
...Serge Jaroff has prepared new programs of sacred music, folk and Cossack songs for both evenings...
...But my reaction was always the sam...
...The critics, I think, were rather pleased...
...Yet I did meet Naximova—on the night "Hedda" went on ths road...
...She upstaged all the actors...
...General "Ike" stood throughout the half-hour recital and asked for four encores, one of which was "The Volgs Boatman...
...That drawing rom was too small to hold Naslmova...
...How else could I possibly knot* what's going on in this world...
...Charles Barnet and his Orchestra, featuring Kay Starr, Peanuts Holland, Phil Barton and AI Killian, headline the accompanying "in person" show...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 38
