REGENT, EPSOM, AND RIALTO
“MICHAEL STROGOFF” One of the marked features of “Michael Strogoff:,” the spectacular Universal-Film de France production filmed from Jules Verne’s famous melodrama of the same name, and which comes to the Regent and Rialto Theatres to-night, is the meticulous care with which comparatively minor parts are cast. True the Czar of all Russia at the period of the story was no “minor character,” but in the play, after giving motivation to the plot by sending “Michael Strogoff, Courier of the Czar,” on his perilous mission across some 5,000 miles of Siberian wastes, he is a mighty, but unseen factor in the picture. In seeking an actor to play the role of the Czar. Director Tourjansky, was fortunate in securing E. Gaidaroff. a Russian artist whose resemblance to the famous Alexander 11., is so striking that an old Russian moujik coming upon him one day when he made up for his part, fell to his knees and kissed his hand, addressing him as “Little Father.” the old-time affectionate designation of the Russian peasantry for their Czar.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 June 1927, Page 15
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