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By Ruth Witson
RUSSIA today is one large factory on a Five Year Plan ("five years' work and then maybe we'll have **a good time!"), full of serious people getting mixed up with the machinery. Russia yesterday, was a glamorous country, with the most brilliant society in Europe. A society famous for its beautiful women. A society whose backbone was made of handsome, distinguished men who entertained lavishly, danced gaily and kept the eyes of lovely ladies bright and smiling. And then suddenly, it all ended. The revolution was on and there was no place in Russia for the "whites".
Two among the most conspicuous members of this marked society were Adia Kuznetzoff, head of the theatrical and motion picture enterprises in Russia, and Zinaida Nicolina, exquisite, younger daughter of the Judge of the Supreme Court of Tiflis. Although these two did not know one another in Russia, and although neither of them had ever appeared as a professional entertainer, a strange fate brought them together in America where they have been everywhere — singing Russian ballads and gypsy songs in vaudeville, in the opera, in the theatre, in their little cafe, the Kretchma, and on the radio.
When the revolution broke out, Kuznetzoff escaped from Russia with a band of wandering gypsies who discovered that this nobleman whom they had befriended had a magnificent basso voice. Such a very deep voice, in fact, that they sent him out as a one-man gypsy band. He traveled through Turkey, Armenia, and Greece with the gypsies and in Constantinople, sang before a gathering of the ambassadors of the entire world. Kuznetzoff was such a sensation that it gave him the idea to become a professional singer. It was then for the first time that he thought of leaving the land that he loved so well, for an unknown country — America.
The thought was almost coincident with the fact, for in a short time, Kuznetzoff arrived in America, with high hope in his
Zinaida Nicolina, Russian beauty who escaped her devastated home in Tiflis, to find success and romance in America.