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Broadway these days seems a strait-laced street, solemn with young Method actors mooning over Chekhov and Freud, censored by Actors Equity, censured by critics. Little is heard to compare with the 19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly...
Died. Olga Knipper-Chekhova, 89, widow of Anton Chekhov (who called her "my little crocodile"), Moscow Art Theater actress for 40 years; in Moscow...
Separate Tables. A Chekhov situation, without the Chekhov truths, brings half a dozen warped and lonely characters together in an English seaside boardinghouse. The parts provided by Playwright Terence Rattigan, a master illusionist, are well acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Killer and Gladys Cooper...
...their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity...
...another are Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev (Houghton's collection of works of Russian authors is the strongest outside of the Soviet Union, and, says William H. Bond, Curator of Manuscripts, "May be the best in the world for all we know...