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...Inspector General (Warner) is a Danny Kaye comedy based-a long way off base-on Nicolay Gogol's satiric Russian classic about the impostor who helps some corrupt officials outsmart themselves. Watered down and gagged up as it is, Gogol's idea is still engaging, and Comic Kaye is man enough to make even thin material look nervously good...
...course there is little resemblance between this movie and the original play by Gogol. There is little meeting ground between Russian drama and Kaye with his capers and patter songs and mugging. But this is beside the point--Danny Kaye has always stood on his own feet...
...Nikolai Gogol's satire. "The Inspector General," will be presented by the Dramatic Club's Reading Theater this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Fogg Large Room. The players will read directly from script without benefit of scenery or costuming...
...Russian "drama-comedy," Nicolal Gogol's "The Inspector General," will be the first reading plan since 1946 to be presented by the Harvard Dramatic Club's newly revived Reading Theater...
Muscovites, to whom their saints were fellow citizens, worshiped God in their city and their city in God. The rest of the world seemed more remote than the saints. Wrote Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world." Muscovites retained their simple faith, which often took the homey form of poetic superstition. Perhaps the most widespread legend was that the huge Tower of Ivan within the Kremlin was married to the Sukharev Tower, a cute little...