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...Russians may not be essentially a jolly race, but somewhere about their bearded persons lurks a kind of laughing madness. If you thought them gloomy, morbid, humorless, you should have read Chekhov or Gogol's Dead Souls. Rather than go to the library for an old book, read Kataev's The Embezzlers...
...Gull. Anton Chekhov's play, upon which the Moscow Art Theatre rose to fame and from which it took the wings which are its symbol, is being presented for special matinees by a group directed by Leo Bulgakov, one of the Moscow group who remained behind when Stanislavsky (Konstantin Sergyeyevich Aleksyeyev) took his troupe home several years...
Moissi has played in Shaw and Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare and Euripides. He has played in Paris, Petrograd, London, Budapest and the littlest villages in Austria. In Moscow, he played in German while the rest of the cast spoke Russian. He lives on a hill near Vienna with his wife, Actress Johanna Terwin, who is also in the Redemption cast...
...Cherry Orchard. Alia Nazimova, the most caricatured actress of her generation, returned, out of vaudeville and the cinemansions of the west, to the Civic Repertory Theatre in Eva LeGallienne's sensitive if not inspired production of Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is not especially adaptable to translation; its sly and sad description of improvident aristocracy, vaguely cheerful in the face of ruin, is a little forlorn in a strange tongue and a new country, as its people are forlorn in the airy chaos of change. The Civic Repertory did far better with...
...Cherry Orchard. This, by all accounts, is the best play ever written by famed Anton Chekhov; which, for many intelligent persons, makes it the best modern play written by anyone at all. It was previously offered to Manhattan audiences, in highly pantomimic Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their...