Word: bolshoi
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Harry Hopkins, on a diplomat's day off during his mission to Moscow for President Truman (see U.S. AT WAR), visited the Bolshoi Theater Ballet school and ventured an esthetic judgment: "American women are pretty but Russian women are really beautiful...
Later the Soviet Government will erect a memorial to Marshal Shaposhnikov, architect of victory. For the present, the Government awarded 200,000 rubles cash to his pretty actress wife, Marie Shaposhnikova of the Bolshoi Theater, plus 5,000 a month for life...
...Government builds and repairs theater buildings. Moscow's fantastic new Red Army Theater, which is shaped like the five-pointed Soviet Star, was built by the State to the tune of $9,090,000. The proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
...Stalin in his marshal's sand-hued greatcoat smiled benignly from the ornate facade of the Historical Museum. Old women scrubbed shop windows, old men hosed the streets, anxious housewives queued up for special holiday goodies and 10,000 Red Army men gathered one evening before the Bolshoi Theater to practice mass singing. Moscow was ready for May Day; people said that there might be an oldtime monster parade across Red Square, the first since...
Meanwhile in Moscow, last week, an audience that had practically forgotten about The Red Poppy crammed the Bolshoi Theater for the crowning event of the Moscow ballet season. The event was about as revolutionary as the late Czarina's tiara. It consisted of top-flight Soviet Ballerina Lepeshinskaya leaping through the enchanted 19th Century fairyland of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty...