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...play also dragged a good deal out of 19th-century fiction after it. Neurotic young Kostya Triplev wears the musty mantle of European Weltschmerz and Wertherism, and the sea gull, Nina, seems a period heroine who breaks romantically with conventional life, is "ruined" by an interesting older man and exhibits emotions not so much false as several sizes too large for her. Having imported romantic melancholy, Chekhov-being Chekhov-could only in some degree mock its posturings; The Sea Gull remains an uneasy mixture of satire and sentiment rather than a true fusion of the comic and tragic...
...where the play itself is; and in the most crucial scenes, it pulled Chekhov down rather than kept him afloat. This was sometimes a matter of interpretation, but oftener one of acting. Maureen Stapleton's Masha came closest to an entirely right performance, while Montgomery Cliffs Kostya at the outset, and Judith Evelyn's Madame Arkadina pretty much throughout, also scored...
...ambitious son of a humble father, Constantine ("Kostya") Oumansky was 15 years old when the Bolsheviks seized power. Soon his facility for learning foreign languages (he could learn a new one in a month) won him a post in the Tass news agency. His journalistic career was said to have included secret-police duties. Journalism led to diplomacy. When Oumansky came to Washington as Russia's Ambassador to the U.S. (1939), a reporter asked him if he had ever been a GPU (secret police) agent. Said Ambassador Oumansky: "It is beneath my dignity to answer such a question...
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