Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careers in the history of music. But the life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies at the Warsaw Conservatory met with little encouragement. Only the trombone teacher, with whom...
Main Berlin White Russian plotter is handsome old General Pavlo Skoropadsky, onetime Tsarist general, for six months Hetman (head man) of the short-lived Republic of the Ukraine, formed in early 1918 by the German Imperial Government. Another White Russian espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...
...history of the Ukraine (meaning borderland) dates back to the 16th Century when thousands of "Little Russian" or Ukrainian fugitives fled from Poland to the banks of the Dnepr and there established the State of Dnepr Cossacks. Exasperated by successive Polish invasions, they finally appealed to Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich at Moscow for protection and placed themselves under his sovereignty. The Cossack nobility fused with the Russian nobility, the Ukrainian peasantry soon became an assimilated part of the Russian peasantry and for nearly 300 years there was little difference between the Little Russians of the Ukraine and the Great Russians...
Ride a Crooked Mile (Paramount). The central figure of this picture is a borsch-supping, caviar-munching, Otchi-Tchornyia-singing Cossack (Akim Tamiroff). Its locale is Kansas. For this apparent contradiction there is a simple explanation. The Cossack is a cattle rustler. and cattle rustling, by old cinema tradition, is an un-American occupation pursued only by refugees from nations to which Hollywood does not export its wares...
...time Cossack Mike Belan is trying to make a getaway from Leavenworth Penitentiary on horseback, pursued by his long-lost son (Leif Erikson), who has joined the U. S. cavalry and fallen in love with a Cossack singer (Frances Farmer), only cinemaddicts with phenomenal deductive powers will be able to keep track of the proceedings. Only unusually indulgent cinemaddicts will want to. Typical shot: Akim Tamiroff roaring at Leif Erikson in Cossack dialect while showing him how to take a Cossack Turkish bath...