Word: konstantine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messrs. Smith and Murphy are characters in Konstantin Simonov's new play about the U.S., The Russian Question, which keeps up this kind of dialogue for three acts. As the play opened last week at Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater amid critical huzzahs, the big news was that the Soviet Government had chosen it as a deliberate device to form Russia's views...
Liquor in the Jukebox. Konstantin ("a playwright must be a politician") Simonov made his source studies when he toured the U.S. last year under the auspices of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded...
Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, and Madame Konstantin, the other half of the cast, concern themselves chiefly with the more sinster sides of the story, and are quite creditable; but this one is recommended chierly as a love story, and 90 minutes of Bergman and Grant with Hitchcock and author Ben Heet providing the inspiration would have been more than sufficient...
Page One treatment for attending a champagne-&-blini party (for visiting Russian literary lion Konstantin Simonov) aboard a Soviet tanker off the California coast. Before the week was out, California Senator Jack B. Tenney had promised "a full-dress investigation"-"to learn whether there is a collaboration with potential enemies of our country...
High spot of the convention, however, was Saturday's meeting with Russian journalists, Ilya Ehrenburg and Konstantin Simonov, currently touring the United States as a sort of two-man information team. The Niemans took advantage of their trade: what started as an after-dinner speech turned gradually into a mass press conference...