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...once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov--or Yevreynoff, if that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ONCE MORE IS SUCCESSFUL | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

...group of typical human beings gathered in a boarding house. Evreinov does not have his boarders completely transformed as Jerome K. Jerome did in his more sentimental "Passing of the Third Floor Back"; nor does he have them so quickly return to their misery as does the stern Gorki in his "Lower Depths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ONCE MORE IS SUCCESSFUL | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

Moscow ART THEATRE.-It is a very trifling barrier that the Moscow players use their native tongue. The reality and expressiveness of the performance make broader meanings as clear as daylight and inconceivably moving. This is the most justly famous group of actors in the world. Plays by Tchekov, Gorki, Tolstoi, are presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 24, 1923 | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

MOSCOW ART THEATRE?It is a very trifling barrier that the Moscow players use their native tongue. The reality and expressiveness of the performance make broader meanings as clear as daylight and inconceivably moving. This is the most justly famous group of actors in the world. Plays by Tchekov, Gorki, Tolstoi are presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 17, 1923 | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

Moscow ART THEATRE-It is a very trifling barrier that the Moscow players use their native tongue. The reality and expressiveness of the performance make broader meanings as clear as daylight and inconceivably moving. This is the most justly famous group of actors in the world. Plays by Tchekov, Gorki, Tolstoi, are presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 10, 1923 | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

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