EVENTFUL LIFE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 21

EVENTFUL LIFE.

'S 1- Eugenie.Leontovich, the Russian star 2. of many London successes and more recently in "Tovarich" in New York, is a deeply expressive woman, of unhurried gestures; and a fascinating slow voice full of inflections. She is the wife of Gregory Ratoff, that alert and » irrepressible comedian "of the films, and i. ranks as an American citizen. Her a early days as an actress were spent at f the Imperial Dramatic School, which, c like the ballet and the opera at Moscow, was sponsored by the Tsar hims self. She would not like to revisit I- Russia, remembering what the revoluif tion did to her family. Two of her i- brothers were killed :by the Bole sheviks. while she was'acting in Mosr cow. On receipt of the'news of their i- deaths", she fled to Baku, near the Cast, pian Sea, and there joined the rem- :, nant of her family and went to Conh stantinople. It took two months, and t the family was required to _ change [.'names, wear disguises, forge visas, and c carry false passports. , y "STORM OVER PATSY." ,t ■ ■ .• 0 - Adapted from the German of Bruno ■t Frank by. James Bridie, (the Scotch s playwright who wrote "The Anatoms ist" and other successful plays), i- "Storm Over Patsy" has been 3 delighting New York audiences. Bruno Frank , wrote the little thing many years ago. It has been performed in fourteen countries and has been called many names in many dif- ■ ferent languages. When it was presented in New York it featured Sara a Allgood (of the Abbey Theatre, Dub- ' lin), Roger Liysey, the London actor, '" Leo Carrillo (who was in New: Zealande with "Lombardi, Ltd."), and Claudia s Morgan, the Hollywood actress. It is d one-third satire, one-third farce, and L" one-third burlesque. It was written at l" the time the Nazis were beginning to 9 be prominent in German affairs, and a though the political aspect has been '- modified by the Scotch translator, it is !" still an interesting survey of the Ger--1 many of the time. c "" TOO MUCH REALISM. r — — I During the staging of Robert Shcrr wood's play on Arizona, "The Petrified Forest" (starring Leslie Howard), in a :' Rhode Island coast city Theatre-by-the--3 Sea, a terrific thunderstorm broke durs ing the last act; in this act machine = gun fire takes up much of the final , action, various shots being exchanged between gangland and the law before , the curtain. So near were the thunderj claps that the audience could hear none of the lines on the stage. Its memJ bers, as a matter of fact, were more petrified than the forest. When the ; gunfire could be heard eventually, all ' the audience thought it heard was a mouse.