Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported Cholly Knickerbocker, in open-mouthed awe: "We doubt that even the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor of China, or the Czar of Russia, when those fabulous courts were at their peak, ever attempted anything on a more colossal scale...
Last week, after Music Czar Petrillo lifted his ban on television (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the networks scrambled to be first to televise their big symphonies. CBS won by a nose, with a telecast of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was an interesting performance: Maestro Eugene Ormandy, unwarily popping a peppermint into his mouth in midpassage; the camera ogling the girl members of the orchestra. But for most televiewers it was just a curtain raiser for Toscanini, half an hour later...
...murder of several Czarist bigwigs. Where did his real sympathies lie? Probably with Azef. He managed to get out of the country and lived out his days in Germany, peacefully playing the stockmarket and horsing around at bourgeois seaside resorts (see cut). Azef was the living transition between the Czar's police state and Lenin...
Something Blue. Dzerzhinsky was succeeded by another aristocrat, Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky. Before the revolution Menzhinsky wrote a prophecy: "If Lenin ever reaches power in fact, and not in imagination, he will make a mess of it, the like of one made by Czar Paul I. ... Leninists are a clan of political gypsies, with a strong voice and a love for wielding the knout, imagining that it is their inherent right to serve as coachmen for the laboring masses...
...fortnight before, Movie Czar Eric Johnston had gone to London prepared to talk turkey. He found the atmosphere ripe for a judicious compromise. Britain needed U.S. movies even worse than Hollywood needed the British market...