Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933


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Gitta Alpár, Budapest ->
She has recently performed in the Metrople Theater in Berlin.

Artur Bárdos, Budapest ->
is stage manager with Rheinhardt in Berlin and in Hamburg (1907-1909) and is a Film stage manager. He has been in Berlin until the present time.

Tony Bulandra, Bucharest ->
began at the National Theatre, to which he was nominated partner and he founded the Theatre "Regina Maria" in 1914. Since then he is director and first actor of it. In 1925 they have taken as partner Messrs. Maximilian and Storin.

E.F. Burian, Prague ->
is a well known modern composer and is considered as an expert for jazz-music. He is also known in Czechoslovakia as an Avantgarde-Stagemanager and he opened in 1933 an Avantgarde-Theater "D 34" of his own.

Nush Bushati, Tirana and Vienna ->
While he was studying at the University he attended courses for dramatic instruction with Professor Rheinhardt in Vienna. From 1928 to 1929 he was an actor and stage-manager in the National Theatre at Neustrelitz near Berlin and from 1929 to 1930 he was an actor and stage-manager at the Theatre in Innsbruck.

Adolf Chaloupka, Prague ->
Together with Leo Richter he founded the "Theater for Everybody" in 1926.

George Chelmis, Athens ->
is involved in the fabrication of cigarettes at Cairo, A. Chelmis & Company; "The pearls of Egypt Cigarette" which was founded in 1871. He is also director of the Theatre Cotopouli (winter) and the Theatre Marica (for the summer months). He made an artistic trip to the U.S.A. (1930-31) with the group of Athenian Players.

Paraschevas Economou, Athens ->
is a dramatist and is director of an Operetta Troup since 1927. He played (under his proper name) with his troup in Egypt, Turkey, Abissynia and Kartoum and he arranged the operettas of Lehár, Kálmán, Strauß, Benatzky for Greek adaptation.

Sárl Fedák, Pestszentlörincz ->
She has been actress since 1902. She plays only parts in comedies, operettas and tragedies written especially for her. She played in "János Vitéz", (700 performances) and was three times on star tours in the U.S.A.

Antonin Fencl, Prague-Podoli ->
In 1909 he became Manager of the Svandovo Theater and in 1913 he founded the first open air theater in Sarka with 30.000 places. He became Manager of Národni Theater in Brno and in 1917 he founded the first film-studio in Prague (Praga-Film). He won the prize of the Ceská Akademie for "Shakespeare on the Czech stage" and since 1923 he is the owner of the Arena in Prague (revues and operettas). He has staged many English and American plays and acted as Marc Antonius, Petruchio, Shylock and many humorous parts.

Wysocki, von Anton Godziemba, Warsaw ->
In 1912 he founded a Theater in Lwów with the name "Unabhängiges Theater" (independent theater) of which he was in charge up to 1915.

Marie Jasnorzewska (formerly Pawlikowska), Cracow ->
She has had great success with her dramatic composition, "Les amants du ciel" on the subject of life of military aviators. She obtained enthusiastic response by very well known military critics for this work.

Angela Lalaouni, Athens ->
For two and a half years he was at the "Schlesisches Landestheater" in Breslau and later toured Germany with Oskar Karlweis for six months. At present he is with the Free Theater in Athens performing in classic and modern parts.

Ants Lauter, Tallinn ->
From 1917 to 1918 he was an actor at the Russian Theater in Nowgorod and since 1918 he is a stage manager and actor at Estonian Theaters and is permanently with the Estonia-Theater. His first trip to foreign countries was in 1922 to Berlin, Vienna, Venice and in 1923 to Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Moscow and Leningrad. From 1928 to 1929 he was in Berlin and he has studied with the stage managers Piscator and Hilpert.

Maria Lhotova, Prague ->
From 1925 to 1931 she was at the City Theater at Plzen and since 1931 she was at the City Theater at Prague. Her main parts are in modern psychological plays, the classical parts of Shakespeare, and also in the works of Dostojewsky.

Agathon Lüdig, Tallinn ->
has been four years in Russia employed in an office. He was an actor in Moscow (1916); and since 1919 he is in Tallinn at the Estonia-Theater.

Timos Moraitinis, Athens ->
One of the most important periods in his life was when he took the arms to defend his country against the Turks in the war of 1897 and when one of his plays was given the first time on the stage.

Anton Pager, Budapest ->
has been an actor since 1920 and is a member of various theaters in the Hungarian Provinces and later in Budapest. He has been at the Theater in Andrassy utca, in the Hungarian Theater, and is since 1933 in the "Belvárosi" Theatre. He is also known as a film actor.

Szidonia Rákosi, Budapest ->
After having completed her studies in the Academy in the Hungarian Theatre she became a member of the National Theatre and she has her own School in Budapest since 1884. She has traveled in France, Paris, Berlin, London, Vienna, Italy.

Ludwig Sosnowski-Solski, Warsaw ->
In 1875 he came to the City-Theater in Cracow. After several years in Cracow, he came to Warsaw, where he joined a group of actors. From 1881 to 1882 he had singing lessons with Professor Aleksandrowicz. He was engaged to the Polish Theater in Poznan as an actor and for tenor parts. He sang the first parts of operas and also played dramatic parts and comedies. Later on he was only a dramatic actor and he played prominent parts in Cracow under the artistic management of the famous director Stanislaw Kozmian. He also worked successfully as a stage manager. In 1905 he was nominated Director of the City-Theater in Cracow and in 1913 he was appointed Director of the National Theater in Warsaw (under the Russian Regime). During the World War (1917-1918) he was Manager of the Theater Polski in Warsaw. Since 1922 he is a member and Director of the National Theater in Warsaw. He has brought many prominent Polish actors on the stage: St. Wispianski, K. Rostworowski, L. Rydel, L. Rossowski, I. Zutawski, Przybyszewski and Morstin Zapolska.

Constantin Tanase, Bucharest ->
played for three years with a famous artist's group, organized a troupe for comedy play, for operettas and operas and since 1918 he is the director of theatre Carabus with a cast of 200 persons. He has played in Turkey with this group and alone in Paris and has played in the film "Le Rève de Tanase" and "Chaure de Tanase". He organized an ensemble to present Rumanian plays and songs. He founded three schools for children and a church. He is President of the Society "Scena" (Rumanian Artists) and composer of music for reviews, songs and short stories.