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...CHEKHOV: A LIFE (431 pp.)-David Magarshack-Grove Press...
Most Russians found themselves in the elder's predicament when Tolstoy, his face more flushed than ever, started pole-hanging in the sphere of politics and morals. Some listened passionately to his revolutionary edicts; other gaped and wished the old man would stick to art. Anton Chekhov, who was born (1860) 32 years after Tolstoy, started by listening, but eventually decided that he could do better gymnastics...
...dress while she was in it." Worse, Jenny was deprived of her solo curtain call. She consoled herself with the thought that "for every person who hates me backstage, there are 30 people out there who love me." For the rest, she calmed her nerves by reading Chekhov...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Discussion of Chekhov's The Three Sisters...
...with a kiss, and each may choose his own ideal time and place for the trial. Having kidded the colonels, Ustinov now kids their national drama. The Sleeping Beauty is wooed in vain in a French period comedy, an Elizabethan verse-play, a languid bit of Chekhov, a Hollywood melodrama...