Word: astrov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genuine Chekhovians acquire an appetite for an atmosphere of twilit melancholy through which bewildered stoics make their weary way, ceaselessly confronted with frustration and despair. Nobody gets what he wants in Uncle Vanya. Michael Astrov, acted by Osgood Perkins (late editor of the Chicago Herald & Examiner in The Front Page), distinctly wants Lillian Gish, the second wife of an aged, selfish pedagog. With admirable restraint, her husband's brother-in-law, "Uncle Vanya" (Walter Connolly), also pursues Miss Gish as she floats about the stage attired in the costume of a pastel Gibson Girl. And although both Miss Gish...
...audience that their characters are in love with each other should witness Uncle Vanya. For although Playwright Chekhov alters the relations of his nine characters not one whit during the entire play, when the bells of their carriages tinkle away offstage, taking Miss Gish back to Moscow and Dr. Astrov back to his practice, the audience is well aware that it has witnessed a subtle, intense, ably handled series of human emotions...