Word: kinsfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They, peasants and factory workers, have entered the vast, rectangular Imperial Hall of Columns-white columns of pearly marble, twinkling in the radiance of a myriad crystal chandeliers. Here the Romanovs and some of their Windsor and Hohenzollern kinsfolk moved to stately music amid the white fire of diamonds. But now the bench of the Soviet Supreme Court dominates, draped with a coarse cloth, blood...
...first impression of the second scene, for here Mr. Oenslager had incorporated the most modern of ideas with a simplicity that was extremely charming. Man,--now grown to man's estate and married--is undergoing the pangs of poverty, and the visit to his humble quarters by kinsfolk seems to establish more clearly his state of utter want. In the part that follows, J. J. Collier and Miss Secoy did a really splendid piece of acting. Andreyev has unfettered his wings of imagination and let them soar at will. The ecstasy, the pathos, the stabbing joy of building castles...