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STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont.: Both parts of Henry IV and Julius Caesar. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard has also been added to the repertory...
...View of Vesuvius. Then, suddenly, came fame. Chekhov liked his early stories; Tolstoy was delighted by his crude force ("You . . . are a real peasant!"). Moscow's intelligentsia embraced the tall, stooped figure in high boots and belted black tunic. Gorky's wildly onomatopoeic Song of the Stormy Petrel became the battle anthem of the revolution, and soon he was hip deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers...
...Unlike Chekhov's Ward 6 in the clas sic of that name, from which Tarsis drew his title and which was an attack on the abysmal physical conditions in Czarist asylums. Ward 7 seemed almost heaven to some of the inmates by comparison with the wretchedness of Russian life outside. "Personally I'm very happy," explained one of them to Almazov: "I'm fed. I'm clothed. Nobody preaches Communism at me. Do you realize? No propaganda, and you can say what you like! Where else can you do that...
...while her Harvard hosts (representing Dunster House, Operation Match, and the Ad Hoc Committee to Bring V.A. to Harvard) elbowed each other aside. Then it was off to the Loeb for a rehearsal with John Lithgow '67, with whom she will read from Ionesco's The Bald Soprane and Chekhov's The Marrige Proposal at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Dunster House Junior Common Room...
...Saturday she will come to Dunster House to read from two plays by Ionesco and Chekhov and to be crowned again, this time as "Miss Match...