Shadowland (Mar-Aug 1923)

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Artists from Muscovy Sketched by Wynn Constantin Stanislavsky, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, and for more than twenty years its leading spirit, began as an amateur. He has developed into the greatest director and one of the finest actors of his generation. He himself has set the example of perfect team work, ivhich has made the Moscow organization the most notable theatrical organization that has ever been brought into existence. Gifted with a splendid imagination and with original theories of stage direction and acting, his productions are perfect examples of naturalism which never oversteps the bounds of good taste and results in overemphasis. The visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York and other cities in this country is likely to have an abiding effect on the American stage CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY IVAN MOSKVIN Moskvin's ability to merge his identity in whatever part he plays is shown at its best in the role of that Russian rollingstone, Luka, in Gorky's The Lower Depths. Here we have humor and humanity, high comedy and low. He created the role in the original production in 1902 Page Thirty-Two