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...common man. Extending from 1919 to 1939, it tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward in the average man's shoes...
...director of the Moscow Art Theatre; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The Moscow Art Theatre was the result of an 18-hour conversation in 1897 between Dantchenko, then a dramatic-art teacher, and a businessman named Constantin Stanislavski. It attained world fame with the help of writers like Chekhov and Gorky, hardily adapted itself to the Soviet scene...
Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser...
...Three Sisters. All-star revival of Chekhov's classic of frustrated, self-pitying lives (TIME...
Next day Ivy Litvinoff reviewed the performance in the Washington Post. With an Englishwoman's casualness about travel, and Soviet-bred disdain for Chekhov's pre-revolution neurotics, she sniffed at the idea that "it should take three perfectly healthy young women, with the price of a ticket in their pockets, four acts not to get to Moscow...