Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artichokes; for fun, the local White Russians have dances in their peasant pantskis-Kazachoks. waltzes, soft shoe, maxixe, tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar (Alexander Scourby) is trailing Mikhail for the money, and Tatiana proposes that they give the Red the slip by signing on as maid and butler to an oil-rich American family...
Time was when almost anyone who had shot an aardvark or stared at a commissar or eaten 327 doughnuts in 83 minutes could pick up extra cash lecturing to women's clubs. Real celebrities were hardly required to lecture; they just had to turn up and let themselves be stared...
Domesticity irks Littlechap, and he has affairs with a Russian lady commissar, a German maid, and an American nightclub singer. There is less sin than smirk to these escapades. Playing the wife and all the other women in Littlechap's life as well, Anna Quayle is a droll dreadnought of a female. In the most waspishly comic number in the show. Ty pise he Deutsche, she sprays the audience with Hitlerian gutturals...
Another former cover subject (he has appeared there twice) is France's Andre Malraux, art historian, revolutionary, novelist, flyer, archaeologist, Resistance hero, politician-and now De Gaulle's culture commissar. Fresh from his gala at the White House with the Kennedys, Malraux in Manhattan had some eloquent words to say on the subject of mass culture. Even the New York Times, which yields to no one in its readiness to print long texts of politicians' dull speeches, missed this lively one, which we quote from extensively in Modern Living...
...mind and great critical prestige to the Cause and was heard in a somewhat baffling plea to U.S. intellectuals to "take Communism away from the Communists." He got small thanks from Michael Gold, a man of small talent and great authority who functioned as a sort of U.S. cultural commissar for the party. Wrote Gold (later, of course): "Wilson ascended the 'proletarian bandwagon' with the arrogance of a myopic, high-bosomed Beacon Hill matron entering a common streetcar...