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Each of the three Prozorov sisters, living in a provincial Russian town of the last century, suffers from disappointment and disillusion. Masha, wed to an absurd pedagogue, finds, only to lose, her true love, Colonel Vershinin; Olga, the eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

Last week the Daily Mirror moved an open-eyed step further. To the Mirror's weekly, nine-month-old advice column, called "Peter Cavendish is your friend," a mother wrote asking if she should allow her 20-year-old daughter to spend a holiday alone with the daughter'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morals in the Mirror | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

The work of Anton Checkhov, saintlike Russian reformer, "The Three Sisters" was first performed by Stanislavsky in Moscow in February, 1901. The play itself is a beautifully executed bit of national portraiture as well as a discriminating study of individual frustration. Each of the three Prozorov sisters, living in a...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: PLAYGOER | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

THE EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOX-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Brent is Brent and Stanwyck is always the same, but Geraldine Fitzgerald steals the show as a sensation-seeking British Lady. She wears a monocle and vamps her younger sister's fiance so convincingly that you envy him. The rest of the cast is made up of Gene Lockhart, Donald...

Author: By L. M. W., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

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