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Some readers may recognize Lin Yü-t'ang (My Country and My People}, but Lu Hsün, "China's Chekhov," and Mao Tun, "perhaps the outstanding novelist of China today," will be new acquaintances...
When Stanislavsky started the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, one of their first productions was Chekhov's The Sea Gull, which had been a resounding failure when it was first produced two years before...
Stanislavsky's devoted company made it just as resounding a success, and from then on Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre marched in step. The company produced three more Chekhov plays (Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Garden}, produced also Actress Olga Knipper, whom Chekhov married...
Driven south to Yalta by his lungs, Chekhov at last had to leave Russia altogether. With his wife to nurse him through his last illness, he went to Germany to die. On the evening of the night he died, Chekhov told his wife so many funny stories that she failed to hear the gong, missed her dinner. His body was brought back to Russia in a car that had been used to ship oysters in. Biographer Toumanova thinks that would have amused...
...Author. In 1925 exiled Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova arrived in the U. S. with $29, no English. Now she is Lecturer in French at Barnard College, has just taken her Ph.D. at Columbia University, is a naturalized U. S. citizen. It took a revolution to arouse her interest in Chekhov. As a refugee in Paris she studied at the University, discovered Maupassant, through him, Chekhov. In the U. S. she learned English by teaching French, decided to perfect it by taking a Ph.D. Her English dissertation she rewrote four times, parts of it 50 times. Nothing daunted, she now plans...