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...chorus and Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic, 3 LPs). Maurice Maeterlinck's dewy drama of innocent love and death made luminous by Debussy's timeless score. The performance is excellent, and the recording has a presence that lends impact to the vaporous score. Prokofiev: Semyon Kotko Suite (Radio Berlin Symphony conducted by Rolf Kleinert; Urania). Eight orchestral selections from the 1939 Prokofiev opera. The plot deals with the 1918 Ukranian uprising against the Germans, but it would be hard to guess it from the suite; despite moments of real strength, its character is mostly sweetness...
...rule I don't agree with Russian viewpoints, but Lieut. Colonel Kotko is right when he says tipping is un-Marxian [TIME, Jan. 17]. I believe it is also undemocratic. I wonder whether all these people, the barbers and waiters and cab drivers, realize that by expecting so eagerly to be tipped, they place themselves in a servile position towards their fellow citizens...
However lustily it is beaten back with proletarian hammer & sickle, bourgeois human nature will out. Recently, in an eloquent letter to the editor of Moscow's folksy evening daily, Vechernyaya? Moskva, crusading Lieut. Colonel V. Kotko self-righteously attacked one aspect of this un-Marxian state of affairs-tipping...
...Wrote Kotko: "New social relations . . . make it revolting to see some remnants of the old degrading habits still present. You get a shave in a barbershop, and before you have a chance to get to the door an agile little man makes several passes at you with his clothesbrush, allegedly depriving you of nonexistent bits of hair. Having completed this 'labor,' he looks at you expectantly. The man in charge of the wardrobe hands you your coat with the same expectant look in his eyes...
...they work on 300 visitors who each give 50 kopecks," Colonel Kotko calculated bitterly, "that makes 150 rubles additional income daily." (A highly skilled industrial worker makes 100 rubles...
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