Method acting aspects), and Sanford Meisner (the behavioral aspects). The approach was first developed when they worked together at the Group Theatre in New York. All three subsequently claimed to be the rightful heirs of Stanislavski's approach. "The Method" is an elaboration of the "system" of acting developed by the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski. In the first three decades of the 20th century, Stanislavski organized his training, preparation, and rehearsal techniques into a coherent, systematic methodology. The "system" brought together and built on: (1) the director-centred, unified aesthetic and disciplined, ensemble approach of the Meiningen company; (2) the actor-centred realism of
Julia Heflin "Stage Magazine" and the old "New York Herald Tribune", first abroad, and later when she returned to the United States. She interviewed Nemirovitch-Danchenko, who, with Konstantin Stanislavsky, founded the Moscow Art Theatre. Among many others, she also interviewed actor-singer-activist Paul Robeson, stage director Max Reinhardt, film director Sergei Eisenstein and playwright George Bernard Shaw. Returning to New York, Julia staged a play with boisterous boys at a public works settlement house, and, with Lee Strasberg, taught acting in evening classes at the Laboratory Theatre in Manhattan. She worked for Broadway producers Eddie Dowling, Oscar Serling and Lewis Gensler, and assisted