PILOTTO , C amillo . - Actor, born in Rome on February 6, 1890, son of the author-actor Libero Pilotto. He began very young and was part of the most important companies of his time; but he revealed himself above all alongside Emma Gramatica, in whose company he held the roles of first actor and character, in which the latter is today held among the best.
The number of characters, especially modern ones, he interpreted is enormous, especially in the repertoire of Emma Gramatica (Ibsen, Shaw, Amiel, Géraldy, Schönherr, etc.). Among the most recent are his Creon in Antigone by G. Anouilh, the Father in the Six characters by L. Pirandello, Sganarelle in Don Giovanni di Molière.
ABBA , Marta . - Actress, born in Milan in 1903, studied acting at the Accademia dei filodrammatici in her city, and made her debut in one of the last companies directed by Virgilio Talli. In 1928, hired as the first actress of the Art Theater then founded by Luigi Pirandello in Rome, she revealed herself in Our Goddess of Bontempelli; followed by interpretations of Evreinov 's What Matters Most , and the Six Characters(shot) by Pirandello himself. The company then raised its tents from Rome, to travel for long years in Italy and abroad - France, Germany, England, South America - and Abba, who had become the poet's favorite disciple, to whom she kept filial devotion as long as he lived , was admired for his talents of vibrant drama, especially in the Pirandellian repertoire. In 1931-32 he played in Paris, in French and with French actors, the man , the beast and the virtue , by the same author. In 1933 she was the first actress of the company of the "Teatro Stabile" of San Remo, who also had a few months to live. Finally moved, in 1936, to New York, she interpreted in English, with an American company, Tovarischof Deval, reporting wide success in its replicas lasting over a year. Pirandello died on December 10, 1936, and in January 1938 Abba married Mr. Millikin, an industrialist from Cleveland; and, giving up the scenes, settled in California. She had also had success as an expressive and suggestive film actress, particularly in the film Teresa Confalonieri .
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