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...NETC convention, Logan spoke on "Problems in Directing." He began by quoting an Air Force instructor, who had told him, "There's very little to stage direction. All you have to do is arrange it so you can see 'em and hear 'em." And Logan ended by repeating what Stanislavski once inscribed on a photograph for him: "Love the art in yourself, not yourself...
...sequences involved The Actor's Studio and Stanislavski--"who made me the genius I am today. In one word he summarized to me the secret of success in dramatics: suffer." To Kaye, Stanislavski says, "Think before you stink...
SEPTEMBER. New Ivy League fashion craze, begun in Eliot House, sweeps the nation--black shirts. Cecil B. DeMille arrested by Moscow Secret Police for conspiring to overthrow the government. Says De Mille, "It was Stanislavski technique." Arthur Darby Nock denies that he is a living reincarnation. States he, "I am Arthur Darby Nock." Is given a Ford Grant to prove...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...greatest in tradition and still richest in performance is the famous Moscow Art Theater. It thrives on the heritage of its founder and first director, Konstantin Sergeivitch Stanislavski. There are no extreme experiments in the Russian theater now, as there were in the '20s, but the most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses...