Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond has always held the conventional beliefs about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly...
...Dishonored Lady) make her a leading candidate for First Lady of the U. S. stage. The Barretts of Wimpole Street is her first venture into producing on her own. As befits an aspirant for First Ladyship, she contemplates producing more plays, perhaps forming her own company, doing Ibsen, Chekov. Her father, a Buffalo doctor, had never seen her in a first-night until last week...
Osgood Perkins '14, who is now playing the role of Dr. Ostroff in Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" at the Wilbur Theatre, will lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock to the Cambridge School of Drama...
...Vanya" at the Wilbur it is quite probable that "Death Takes a Holiday" will have some difficulty. Two plays of excellent calibre, at once in Boston, might expect to be a considerable drain on the better clientele, especially when one is such an exquisitely fine production as that of Chekov's comedy. However, even in such excellent company, "Death Takes a Holiday" should not be neglected. The acting of Philip Merivale is very well above the average, and the play itself in spite of a mediocre translation and none too exciting direction is interesting. The theme of the effect...
...current production of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" now playing at the Wilbur is beyond all doubt a superlative exhibition of theatrical art. There is absolutely no single point which could be impeached. The acting, the directing and the settings were all outstanding in their excellence. But anything that can be said in praise of this production can be little more than a repetition of the highly enthusiastic remarks of those who first saw it in New York...