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Uncle Vanya. One sure way of cementing a friendship is to discover that you and your acquaintance are both devoted readers of the works of the late Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, that you have, both covered the 350-odd short stories, the six full-length plays. Of the six, four have been produced in Manhattan since autumn: The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and, last week, Uncle Vanya. Presented with artistic piety by Producer Jed Harris, Uncle Vanya was ecstatically received by confirmed Chekhovians. In addition, cinemagoers had the opportunity of beholding birdlike Cinemactress Lillian Gish...
...melodrama. Its title is ambiguously symbolical: a troyka is a Russian carriage drawn by three horses, the centre horse wearing a halter around its neck. The play exhibits all the typical appurtenances of Russian drama, including characters named Bogulieff and Bolotoff, without any of the vitalizing insight of a Chekhov or a Tolstoy. Natascha is quietly played by Zita Johann, whose intelligent presence gave interest to last season's Machinal...
Panamian TIME fans read Karl Marx (El Capital), The Life of Lenin, Emerson, Wisest American, Chekhov, Dostoevski, Keyserling, James Joyce. Best sellers from the pen of local authors...
...British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples, The Vanity Bag, Perfectly Scandalous (a play...
Civic REPERTORY THEATRE-Moliére, Goldoni, Tolstoy, Anet, Chekhov, Ibsen, Barrie, depending on the night...