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...Literature. At Kazan University, where he had distinguished himself by refusing to be educated, Tolstoy had read the complete works of Rousseau with such adoration that he wore a medallion portrait of him around his neck. In the army he began to write, still under Rousseau's influence and partly in enthusiasm for Laurence Sterne. In 1852 Tolstoy's Childhood, written in camp, excited the reading public in Moscow and won the praise of Turgenev and of Dostoevsky*-then in exile in Siberia...
Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
Then Truckline's producers, Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan, tore into the critics. In an angry New York Times ad they announced they would close Truckline this week, but not "without saying a few things that are on our minds." Sample...
...Once long ago I was speaking in Kazan province. A woman said: 'Here you are walking in good boots and where are boots for us?' In those days I really had good boots, but this woman was well dressed, too. I looked at her and said: 'What do you want? That the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, the representative of the supreme power, should come to you in straw shoes?' People around cried: 'Right! Right!' Here is a stupid woman not to understand that...
Under Elia Kazan's (The Skin of Our Teeth, Jacobowsky and the Colonel) able direction, a good cast works hard and well. Topping it, in the role of the Senator's younger daughter, is Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes' charming, 22-year-old daughter Barbara. With only a brief career of small parts behind her, she may well stand out as the best ingenue of the season...