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...really seen the country. Sending his wife home he returned to Moscow, found lodgings with a Russian family in a tiny house, got a job tending a machine in a candy factory at 80 rubles per month. Thence he went to Leningrad, took another job as chauffeur for Intourist at 250 rubles. At the end of three months he returned to the U. S., second class, wearing a wrinkled brown suit, khaki shirt, flannel tie, battered cap, carrying two pieces of luggage and a cardboard box. He bubbled with enthusiasm over the Russians who, he felt, had "the answer...
...spite of its many defects this film is well worth seeing. The impressionistic treatment is more original that the half-hearted American attempts, and there is a naive spirit to the action in which the audience delights. The Amfoto way of seeing and feeling Russia is less expensive than Intourist, and probably no more propagandized...
...show Soviet Russia to luxury-loving Capitalist tourists traveling First Class, the Soviet State Travel Monopoly, Intourist, bought last week 140 Lincoln cars, plus spare parts and accessories totaling $400,000. Ten of the 140 Lincolns are twelves, the rest eights, mostly seven- passenger touring cars and sedans...