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Originally crafted for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bells were purchased in the 1920s by industrialist Charles Crane when the Russian government threatened to melt them...
This concert has been arranged through the courtesy of the Most Rev- erend Evdokim, Archbishop of Aleutia and North America, and of Mr. Charles R. Crane. The conductor will be Ivan T. Gorokhoff of Moscow. It will be open to the public, but a limited number of seats will be reserved for members of the University and their friends...
Confessions has a pretty high exasperation quotient--partly built in (a practical joke is also an endurance test) and partly from its being at the tired end of a line of movies about weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle...
...Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...
Most historians agree that if Crane had not purchased the bells, they would have been destroyed long ago by the Soviet regime...