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...year-old dean of Russian composers, Reinhold Glière, for his new ballet score. The Bronze Horseman. The production of his 23-year-old Red Poppy, one of the most popular ballets in Russia, won prizes for ten leading performers and the directors of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...
...voice ring out from behind a hedge, have slowed their pace to hear an operatic aria rising above the snip-snip of his clippers. But few of the townspeople of Irvington (pop. 3,272) know that only eight years ago "John" was the first tenor of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, and a "Merited Artist" of Soviet Russia...
...time Jadan's name was listed on the black side of the backstage blackboard at the Bolshoi. "When one is in the red, that makes for prestige and profits," he says. "But when one is in the black that means financial as well as police troubles. Those who stay too long in the black disappear." In 1941, Jadan disappeared-but he went west instead of east to Siberia. The Nazis captured the village where Jadan had a summer home; the Jadans and the entire population of the village were shipped to Germany for slave labor...
Behind the pillared portico of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, built by an imperial czar, the imperial commissars held jubilee last week on the 26th anniversary of holy Lenin's death. Present for the annual memorial address were the new Red masters of China, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who had been in Moscow since Dec. 16, and his Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, who had just arrived...
This picture shows 22 leaders of World Communism gathered in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater for Joseph Stalin's 70th birthday. Between them they rule one-third of the human race. Most of them lived obscurely until tapped by the Kremlin's magic wand; thus they fulfill one prophetic line of the Internationale: "We have been naught, we shall be all." Left to right...