Word: katayev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squaring the Circle (by Valentine Katayev; translated and adapted by Charles Malamuth and Eugene Lyons; produced by Tri-Art Enterprises). This farce was first staged seven years ago by The Studio (experimental annex) of the Moscow Art Theatre, has since become the most popular of Soviet comedies. More than a million Russians have seen it. It has been produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under...