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...them was adviser to the Soviet Auto Trust in building the automobile factory at Gorki. He is a Detroiter whose name is Henry Ford...
USSR's famed Maxim Gorki (ANT-20), world's largest landplane, contains a complete sound cinema projection booth in addition to a broadcasting studio, rotary printing press (capacity: 10,000 papers per hr.), photo-engraving plant, etc. But Maxim Gorki's projector is used on the ground, to show propaganda films in territory where cinemansions are unknown...
Into the S. S. Excelsior at Odessa were hoisted two Soviet-made Fords, bound for New York and Dearborn, a gift from the Gorki automobile factory to Henry Ford, a reminder from the Soviet Government that he had sold it his patents...
...LIfe Worth Living (by Lennox Robinson; Harry Moses, producer) is a gibe, not at Life, but at those who ask the question. It stimulated Manhattan onlookers with a comparatively fresh idea and the story of the strange effect on an ordinary town of a repertory of grisly plays by Gorki, Chekhov and Strindberg. Thus Author Robinson has for his butts both the childish townspeople, who believe what they see on the stage, and the second-rate actors who lay open the dark places of the soul. In addition to these standard comic themes, he has tried to cash...
...modest villa at Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Europe has read translations of Mitya's Love and The Village. But until U. S. Publisher Knopf brought out an English translation of Bunin's famed short story...