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Devil in the Mind is a Russian play by Leonid Andreyev (He Who Gets Slapped, The Waltz of the Dogs). First produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1914, it tells the very abstruse story of a scientist (Leo Bulgakov, longtime member of the Moscow Art Theatre) who is in love with the wife (Mrs. Leo Bulgakov) of a novelist (Bruce Elmore...
...officially a member of the Council of Labor & Defense, one of three interlocking councils that run the Soviet Government. At the same time "Prime Minister" Molotov, considered by dispassionate critics a far less able man than the deposed Rykov, received a new assistant in the person of one Andrey Andreyev, trades union official who was appointed vice president of the Council of People's Commissars of the U. S. S. R. Contrary to early reports Stalin had not completely banished Rightist Rykov from Soviet usefulness last week. He was removed from his two most important posts: president...
...production of this play continues the traditional policy of the Dramatic Club of presenting plays which are impractical for professional production and yet of real artistic merit. This policy has led to the producing of such plays as Kapek's "Makropoulos Secret". Andreyev's "Life of Man", and "Mr. Paraclete", and J. E. Flecker's "Hassan...
Katerina. This latest addition to the programs of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre is further justification for the rediscovery of Alia Nazimova. It is more. Leonid Andreyev's play has been left behind by changing social codes but it retains a turbulent glow which shines through its drenching melancholy...
...which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much of his play vanishes...