Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music festival. Blustery Red music was played in the Tsar's old palace at Detskoye Selo, in the old Mariinsky Theatre, in the Philharmoniya concert hall and in the famed old opera house. Special excitement came when Violinist Efrem Zimbalist marked his homecoming by soloing in the Glazunov Concerto. But the festival's high mark was the Opera's performance of Prince...
...them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians who took five-day journeys to hear Heifetz fiddle in Leningrad and Moscow, Russians who paid as high as 24 rubles ($19.20) to squeeze into his concerts, Russians who stayed long after the lights went down to hear his Schubert's Ave Maria. Heifetz's earnings for his twelve Russian performances amounted to $10,000 in rubles, none...
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...square-headed Ivan I. Gordeeff, agent in the U. S. for Russia's great Torgsin chain-store system, proudly announced last week in Manhattan that Torgsin had taken over the U. S. 5?-&-10?? store idea. Torgsin's 5-&-10 kopek stores are already doing business in Leningrad, Moscow, Kharkov and a few other big cities. They are actually 5-kopek (4?), 10-kopek (9?), 25, 50 and 100-kopek or one-ruble (87?) stores. Like all Torgsin stores they are designed as bait for foreigners' money. For 5-&-10 they sell knives, tumblers, toothpaste, soap, pins...
...motor ship of 5,113 gross tonnage, Leningrad built in 1931, trimly painted, carrying a cargo of cement, mica, chalk, fuller's earth, Caucasian wine, oil of apricots, juniper (gin) berries. All her officers and able seamen had individual outside cabins amidship. She carried two young stewardesses to feed and amuse her picked crew of young cadets. Even her name KNM (Kim} was chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution...