Word: konstantine
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Grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich has been more fortunate than most Russian emigres since the days when he was official scene painter for the Moscow Art Theatre. He went to the U. S. in 1920 with a mystical manner and a shipload of paintings, explored Thibet, gave lectures on the Higher Life, acquired a circle of adoring acolytes who refer to him as The Marster, designed an international peace flag, and had a 24-story apartment house-museum put up in Manhattan in his honor. Last week came a check. Because of failure to meet interest on mortgages totalling...
...Gull. Anton Chekhov's play, upon which the Moscow Art Theatre rose to fame and from which it took the wings which are its symbol, is being presented for special matinees by a group directed by Leo Bulgakov, one of the Moscow group who remained behind when Stanislavsky (Konstantin Sergyeyevich Aleksyeyev) took his troupe home several years...
...Died. Konstantin Fehrenbach, 74, fifth Chancellor of the German Reich, President of the Reichstag under the imperial regime, a statesman of the first rank in both imperial and republican affairs; at Berlin, of pneumonia...