Russian Star Climbs to Fame

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 21

Russian Star Climbs to Fame

Baclanova's Success TO MARRY IN HOLLYWOOD i | 1 r\LQA BACLANOVA who | plays the street woman in j I “The Street of Sin” is a | j Russian. She arrived in j 1 America three years ago with | 1 the Moscow Art Theatre and 1 I stayed to appear in -pictures. | i i She is a handsome woman of an exotic type, and she plays the menacing creatures of back rooms and

alleys with an amount of passion that makes her work stand out against the paler efforts of the American-horn actresses. Pictures attracted her and she settled In Hollywood, where she has been pretty steadily employed in the major films. She was in “Three Sinners,” which starred Pola Negri; she played with George Bancroft in “The Docks of New York,” and she was the bad wife in “Forgotten Faces,” Baclanova is blonde and has the Slav face, and she knows the routine

of acting thoroughly. She has a showy part in “The Man Who Laughs,” which stars Conrad Veidt. Nicholas Soussanin, who left the Petrograd stage to come to America and work as a labourer before his “chance” came upon the American screen, is to marry Baclanova, The marriage plans are dependent upon notification from Russia of her divorce from Valdemar Zoopi, Moscow attorney, whom she left several years ago in Russia. Soussanin first met the actress in Moscow and later renewed hi 3 acquaintance with her in Hollywood’s Russian film colony.