Word: fiancees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...