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When the revolution swept away the Tsar and the past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured...
Tens of thousands of the mourners who filed through the Writers' Club last week were old soldiers. Not all of them appreciate or understand the poet's later works, the dramas Bathhouse and Bedbug against which even some Moscow dramatic critics carped, one writing that "again like Kipling...
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There is nothing startling about the Dramatic Club's first production of the season, except its contrast to the sort of thing that was being presented a year ago at this time. From unruly Mexico, the Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one...