A young Faina Ranevskaya recommended to the Director of the theater as a "perfect mediocrity"

In 1915, the director of one of the suburban theaters was a young girl rather unusual appearance with a letter. The letter was signed by a close friend of the director, entrepreneur Moscow Sokolovsky. "Dear Vanya, - he wrote - I send you this lady, just to get rid of it. You better myself somehow delicately hint, in parentheses, to tell her what to do it on the stage there is nothing, that there were no prospects of it does not. I myself, really, to make it uncomfortable for many reasons, so that you, my friend, somehow dissuade her from acting career - and it would be better for her and for the theater. This is the perfect mediocrity, all the roles it plays exactly the same way, the name of her Ranevskaya ... "Fortunately, the director of the theater did not listen Council Sokolovsky.

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