CONTINENTAL ACTOR
Nikolai Kolin, the roguish cobbler, whose joyous adventures are the mainspring in the latest U.F.A. super-at-traction, “Secrets of the East,” to be released by Cinema Art Films, gives his own account of his career, which is more than characteristic:
I was on the boards at the age of seven, but I can’t say that these particular boards were at all widely known, for I was producing my own plays, in a toy theatre, and otherwise went to school regularly, like a good little boy, later taking up a good, sound bourgeois occupation. When I was 28 the well-known Russian producer, Stanislawski, opened his new theatre in Moscow. Out of some hundreds of applicants he chose only six, but for some reason not quite clear to me I was one of the six. After this I played at the Moscow Arts Theatre for ten years, one of my favourite roles being Malvolio in “As You Like It.” After the Revolution I went to France, and there first tried my luck on the movies. But when I saw myself on the screen I was so horrified with my lamentable appearance that I had only one thought: never again! However, Alexander Wolkoff overcame my reluctance, and in his film.
“The House of Secrets.” lo and behold! I was very successful. Since then I have sworn myself body and soul to the screen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 16
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231CONTINENTAL ACTOR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 16
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