Win In Hollywood With Nemirovich-Danchenko 1926-1927: The Memoirs Of Sergei Bertensson Created By Sergei Bertensson Digital Copy

mildly interesting diary of the assistant to an apparently very famous Russian theatre director who went to Hollywood for one year during the's.
The main reason I read it was the fact that the author, Sergei Bertensson, sponsored his relatives, the Arendsburger family, to emigrate to the U.
S. in, and the Arendsburgers then helped my own mother's family to emigrate here two years later, There is an introduction to the book by Dmitri Arendsburger that explains

some of this, Sergei Bertensson's diary of his trip to Hollywood with Russian theatre great NemirovichDanchenko is a unique record of an extraordinary and underdocumented chapter in film and theatre history.
For a year Bertensson followed his employer as he met with directors, producers, and, forever discussing projects that would never be realized.
Some of the leading figures in Hollywood history appear in this record, including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and John Barrymore.
Bertensson's observations of life in Hollywood on the eve of the talkies revolution provide us with a compelling snapshot of movie history in the making, seen from the unusual perspective of an outsider.
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