ALLA NAZIMOVA IN VAUDEVILLE
“A SERIOUS PLAYLET” PLAYED IBSEN TRAGEDIES Alla Nazimova has returned from London and is now on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in the United States. The film star recently appeared in San Francisco in what she called “a serious playlet.” It was called “India.” It was based on Katherine
Mayo’s “Mother India,” the sensational expose of child marriage and other culpable features of life among the Hindus. Nazimova has been In America for more than a quarter of a century. She came with a Russian company first, at the head of which was Paul Orlenieff. She made her debut as Lia in “The Chosen People” at the Herald Square Theatre on March 23, 1905. It was Henry Miller who Induced her to study English, In which language she made her first appearance as Hedda in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gebler,” on November 13, 1906. She internated this role with that of < Dora in “A Doll’s House.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 404, 12 July 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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