Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine started right in by denouncing historical movies, because their "unmeasured enthusiasm for 'historism' " ignores "the spiritual riches of Soviet man." Chief target was Russia's foremost film director, Sergei Eisenstein, whose Ivan the Terrible, Part I got critical raves when released in Paris last March. Ivan, Part II, said Kultura i Zhizn, would not be released because it was "antihistorical and anti-artistic," actually dared to show Ivan "not as a progressive statesman, but as a maniacal villain raging in a circle of a gang of young madcaps...
...told neighbors that her husband had been a criminal and was hiding out. But Ivan Kudrin, a police inspector in the tradition of Dostoevsky's Porfiry Petrovich, became suspicious. He learned that Udod had no criminal record, but that Serafima's family had. The paint job, too, interested him. Kudrin dug around Serafima's cellar and found Udod's body...
...trouble, crowed critics of nationalization, was that Bata's managers were picked for their politics, not for their business experience. They pointed to Ivan Holy, 34-year-old general manager of Bata, who got his job chiefly because he was Communist representative of Zlin in the Czech Parliament. His only previous shoemaking experience was as manager of exports to Turkey for Bata during the war. But his Communist connections came in handy in wangling materials and machines from countries dominated by Russia. And Holy was smart enough to surround himself with old Bata employes...
...show's opening was a social event. England's King and Queen spent an hour and a half looking it over, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to England Averell Harriman. They finally came to rest (for the newspaper cameras) in front of Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's deliquescent, infinitely detailed door entitled That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do. The King guffawed when his guide informed him that a Georgia O'Keeffe he was admiring was titled Pelvis with the Moon. Said Queen Elizabeth tactfully: modern U.S. artists exhibit tremendous vitality...
...story is a Hecht original: a great dancer (Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns...