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...Amkino). Not long before his death Anton Chekhov, Russia's greatest short story writer (see p. 64), married Actress Olga Knipper of the Moscow Art Theatre. While he was ill in Yalta, writing stories "feebly, sometimes not more than five or six lines a day," she went on playing her roles and corresponding with him about the child they were expecting. But Olga Knipper had a miscarriage, and the Chekhov who plays a waiter in this picture is not-as the arrogance of the famous name he uses without modifiers seems to proclaim-Chekhov's son, but Chekhov...
...stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow Art Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote a novel. Though Chekhov has been called "the Russian Maupassant," all good Chekhovians think this intended praise too faint, think a reversal of the phrase would...
...first round he put out William Thompson, onetime champion of Canada, by the score of 6 and 5. In the second round he eliminated Clarke Cochrah, who had been breaking course records right and left, 3 and 2. The third man to succumb to Jones' superior golf was Rudolph Knipper, old Princeton star. He was defeated...