Word: art
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lash of the Czar (Amkino). Propaganda, regardless of whether it is issued in a just cause or a stupid one, is always disagreeable. It is especially disagreeable when dished out to the public with an indigestible sugar-coating of Art. But although propaganda has spoiled for the U. S. public many pictures which, wildly praised by some critics for their scenic effects, were merely soap-box communism, propaganda does not spoil this story of a governor with a conscience...
...toward him developing for personal reasons in the minds of a governess and a scab, were originally thought out by Leonid Andreyev, Russia's great, mad dramatist and story writer. Director A. Protozanov seems to feel with Andreyev that psychology is, in the long run, more important to art than politics. Shots - the Emperor's aide-de-camp taking a dose of salts; a statue that loses its nose...
Actor I. V. Kochalov's real name is Shverubovitch. He has been with the Moscow Art Theatre since 1900, and toured the U. S. a few years ago in The Lower Depths, Three Sisters, The Brothers Karamazov and An Enemy of the People. Russians think his greatest part is the name role in Hamlet. The Soviet Government bestowed on him the cherished title "People's Artist of the Republic." Actor Kochalov adds to his large income by giving recitals in Moscow. His wife, Madame Litovtseva, is an actress and producer of the Moscow Art Company. Their son, Vadim...
...Camerlynck was no mere polylinguist. He comprehended many tongues, but he translated only between English and French. His German was too correct and stilted. It was only to his chosen and special art that this little man from Flanders brought facility and fidelity which at times seemed miraculous. Gliding like an actor imperceptibly into the rôle of the statesman for whom he was translating, Professor Camerlynck would seem to become by turns Statesmen Lloyd George, Clémenceau, Wilson, Balfour, Hughes, Briand, Dawes or perhaps that wily Greek, old Eleutherios Venizelos. "We Greeks!" M. Camerlynck would...
...Morgan I they had an authentic Emperor of Railways and Commerce, a sovereign whose technically free serfs were trainmen, and who levied legal tribute on the public. Italians, quicker to perceive such romantic truths, commonly referred to Morgan in his latter years as Il Magnifico. The numberless art treasures which he carried off from Italy-by no better right than his irresistible power to pay any price-doubtless clinched the Italian conviction that he was indeed Il Magnifico...