Friday, September 12, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page Twelve
Nazimova Started
New Theater Era
Progress in Birobidjan
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friNE OF THE world's greatest
actresses who started a new
era in American drama when
she came to this country, was
Alla Nazimova, whose career on
earth was ended two years ago,
on July 13.
Madame Nazimova was born
in Yalta, Crimea, June 4, 1879,
and she began to study 'the arts
at an early age. Taken to Mon-
teux, Switzerland, before the age
of ten, she learned to play the
violin and to speak German and
French. After returning to Mos-
cow, she studied music at the
St. Petersburg Conservatory in
Odessa, and later took up dra-
ma at the Philaem Society in
Moscow.
' By 1904 she was playing lead-
ing roles in the theaters of St.
Petersburg (Leningrad) and a
year later she came to America
with a Russian troupe and made wife:;•• 1.1.1••••••
Graduate engineers, conduct a topographical survey of the site
her American debut as "Lia" in
of a new coal mine in Birobidjan, Jewish autonomous region
the Russian language version of
in the Soviet Union. The surveyors are (left) Anna Malakh
"The Chosen People."
and Boris Korabelnikov.
This play did not make much
of an impression on the Amer- became noted as an inter-
ican theater public and, in fact,
preter of Ibsen, but she was
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the company soon had to move equally outstanding in the plays
to a small Third Avenue thea- of American playwrights such as
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EUgene O'Neill's "Mourning Be-
very limited.
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"The Good Earth."
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who did see it considered The
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because it was straight and sim-
Chosen People" a landmark in
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ple.
American theatrical history. Not
• • •
only did it• introduce a person-
ality those star was destined to TURNS TO FILMS
NAZIMOVA'S ACTING creed
ascend to the heights, but it set
SEASON'S
a new style of acting and direct- was that an actor •should not GREETINGS
play a part but be an instru-
ing for American drama.
For the first time the spotlight ment played upon by the char-
did not shine on the star, with acter he depicts. In her first
the rest of the cast hovering in interview in America she said
the background. Nazimova show- that sincerity and correct use of
ed the most dramatic qualities the voice was most imperative
but every member of the cast for an actor.
After making one of the ear-
was considered important in
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liest movies "War Brides" in
"The Chosen People."
This play introduced to the 1916, Nazimova became one of
American theater the new style the foremost film stars of the
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of realism and restraint which silent days, although she never
left
the
legitimate
theater
for
eventually replaced the cloak
very long. With the advent of
and dagger.
The troupe that brought Nazi- talkies she did not do so much
mova to America sailed home movie work. Among the last GREETINGS
uo. the great star remained, and films she played in were "Es-
six months later she made her cape", and anti-Nazi movie pro-
From Detroit's Smart
duced in 1940, and "Since you
English debut.
Nazimova introduced psychol- Went Away," and "In Our Time,"
ogical acting to this country. She produclid in 1944.
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