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Tsar to Lenin (Max Eastman-Herman Axelbank). An amateur photographer, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia amused him self one summer afternoon in 1913 by snapping his guests and letting them snap him in and about his swimming pool at Livadia. Intended for the royal album, these naive shots turned up last week un der very different surroundings - the screen of New York's Filmarte Theatre, as part of a seven-reel documentary film tracing Russia's history through the War and the 1917 Revolution. Assembled on the general lines of Laurence Stallings' The First World...
Trotskyist Eastman sees to it that his hero gets into as many scenes as possible, includes only one shot of Stalin. Far greater than its significance as Trotskyist propaganda however is the Tsar to Lenin'?, importance as one more striking testimonial to the screen's potential value as a medium for revitalizing history...
When the President got around to choosing a permanent commission, he could not find a chairman. The late Senator James Couzens declined twice. Onetime Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Bartlett Eastman refused in hopes that he may become coordinator of air transport...
...author of a book of West Indian dialect poems about his native Jamaica. Claude McKay went to Tuskegee Institute, switched to Kansas State Agricultural College, quit to become a dining-car waiter. In 1918 tiny, roaring Frank Harris certified him a genius. More encouragement came from Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. McKay went to London to meet Shaw, who reminded him of "an evergreen plant grown indoors...an antelope...chinaware," Shaw asked: "Why didn't you choose pugilism instead of poetry? They talked about plays and cathedrals; when the War was mentioned, Shaw "let out a whinny...like...
...Latest edition: The Poems, Prose and Plays of Pushkin (Random House, $3.50), an anthology by various translators, bitterly attacked by Critic Max Eastman for mistranslations, general inadequacy...