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Katharine Cornell is Countess Olenska; swinging her skirts and thrusting her neck forward, she interprets the part according to the grand manner. The most sad, true and unusual scene in the play is made by Arnold Korff. As Julius Beaufort, he launches into a declaration of love for the Countess Olenska, couched in German accents and florid with metaphor, which is the more tragic because it is so nearly ridiculous...
William Faversham pronounces even the simplest line as either a benediction or a curse. Arnold Daly is a living exhibit of all the tricks of the trade, flourished one after the other. Arnold Korff, who made a distinct impression in The Living Mask (TIME, Jan. 28), here sounds at times like Eddie Foy. Lowell Sherman, save for one or two humorous moments, is hysterical and seems to be constantly limbering up his fingers for typewriter work. Even the extremely honest, intuitive Helen Gahagan gets a little off key from the general falsetto...
...Secondly, the Institute offered a series of lectures by distinguished guests from abroad, among whom were Lord Bryce; Signor Tittoni, President of the Italian Senate and late foreign minister of Italy; Count Telaki, late prime minister of Hungary; Baron Korff, a prominent Russian liberal and vice-governor of Finland under the Kerensky government; Dr. Panaretoff, Bulgarian minister at Washington and envoy to the League of Nations; and Professor Viallate of Paris. These lectures dealt with such diverse topics as "The World's Economic Reconstruction After the War", "The Balkan Question Today", and "The foreign Politics of Russia in the Past...
Preceding the lecture, Baron Korff will be given a diner by the Liberal Club in the Trophy Room of the Union...
...Liberal Club Lecture in the Union. Baron S. A. Korff will speak on "History of the Russian Revolution...