Word: krasnaya
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...Nazis would strike next, last week the shoe was on the other foot. French papers have been toying with the notion of using General Weygand's Army-plus a Turkish Army-on a "Caucasian front"-i. e., in a campaign directed at Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere diversion limited in scope and character, but by far-reaching strategic...
...Sept. 13, you state in a footnote that in Russian the adjective meaning "red" also means "pretty," hence the play on words in speaking of a "red girl" in the Communist sense. Whoever wrote that had better have a talk with Mr. Berlitz and brush up his Russian because krasnaya meaning "red" and krasivaya meaning "pretty" are similar in appearance but entirely different in meaning. I quote the feminine form of the adjective and the transliteration...
Reader Champollion is wrong. Krasnaya, which also means red, is to krasivaya as bonny is to pretty. Authority: Moscow-published Russian-English Dictionary compiled by Professors V. Müller & S. Boyanus...
...generation ago David Belasco initiated a phase of naturalism on the U. S. stage with real flowers, water faucets from which water ran, coffee that steamed and smelled. Of late, the Krasnaya Presnaya Theatre in Moscow, part of whose repertory is a play in which the audience finds itself in the midst of a pitched battle, has taken the lead in holding the theatrical mirror up to life. From whatever source Mr. Bel Geddes gets his inspiration for such supernaturalistic productions as he designed for Dead End and Iron Men, he has not been over-lucky in finding good plays...
...Moscow theatres, each of which has its own technical establishments and all of which perform a repertory of from four to 15 plays, Observer Houghton determined to study four thoroughly: the Vakhtangov Theatre, the Moscow Art Theatre, the Krasnaya Presnaya or Realistic Theatre, the Meier-hold Theatre. At each of these institutions he spent conscientious days backstage at schools and rehearsals. But Mr. Houghton's impressions, like a cat's eyes, become most vivid at night when he is sitting out front...