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Brisk, blonde and beauteous, Anna Sten's confidence was not entirely unreasonable. When she arrived in Hollywood last week it was the beginning of her third cinema career. When her father, a Russian ballet master, died, Anna, then 12, helped to support the family in Kiev. At 15 she got into the Soviet Film Academy. Three years later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn...
...lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent a friend, who was said to have been paid $50,000, from Chicago to see Selznick. Selznick and Zukor, two of the biggest producers...
...Huntington Brown, for the publication of a book on Studies in English Grotesque Satire; Professors Arthur Burkhard, for the publication of a book on "The German Sense of Form"; S. H. Cross, for making a study of the History of Russian literature of the Kiev Period; Mr. T. F. Currier, for the completion of a Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier; Professors W. S. Ferguson, for the publication of "The Treasurers of Athena"; J. D. M: Ford, for the publication of a Bibliography of Cervantes, for continuing his work of the Harvard Council on Hispano-American Studies, for the preparation...
From house to house, from door to door, uniformed Russian police finecombed the cities of Moscow and Kiev last week, looking for kopecks. Bank officials conferred with mint officials, they agreed that too much Russian small change was disappearing from circulation. Despite all the rigor of Soviet laws designed to keep money in circulation, Russian citizens were up to their old trick of hoarding money, bronze and copper coins in particular...
Glum detectives scoured shops and restaurants, poked suspiciously in closets and cupboards, discovered many an old sock clinking with kopecks. Hardly ever were the hoardings large. An old woman peddler of Kiev who had amassed 800 rubles ($411) vas arrested, others were severely scolded, released. In Moscow, however, secret police arrested nine, including one Bogdanov. speculator; one Simonov, cashier; two private traders by the name of Frolov and Mashkov. Each of these amateur numismatists had assembled nearly $2.500 in coins...