Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a military victory that Hitler demanded but didn't get, Metropolitan Basso Alexander Kipnis and Cousin Leonid, who had bought negatives of the film from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, made a distribution deal with United Artists. Last week, under the title Kings of the Olympics, Leni's work began its first general U.S. showing. Leni would scarcely recognize her handiwork...
...Kremlin's masters tell the Russian people that the West has forgotten their great sacrifices in the war. In an eloquent Pravda article, Leonid Leonov, a Russian novelist, cried: "Under [Russian] ground, 7,000,000 warriors lie buried, the men who defended the world against the dark forces. . . . The more easterly the meridian on which blood is shed, the cheaper the blood." In fact, the West does not forget-or hold cheaply-the Russian people, dead or living. It would know more about them except for restrictions imposed by the Kremlin's masters. Last week TIME Correspondent Samuel...
Prokofiev: Sonata In D Major for Violin and Piano (Joseph Szigeti with Leonid Hambro, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Prokofiev's most lyrical scores, recorded expertly and for the first time by the violinist who introduced it in the U.S. in 1944. Performance: excellent...
...particularly at a jazzy comrade named Eddy Rozner, who leads the Government-sponsored State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia, and is one of the hottest of the Soviet Union's not-so-hot bandsmen. His band is one of the six most popular in the U.S.S.R., ranks with Leonid Utesov and his "Merry Lads" who go in for such literal stunts in showmanship as mounting the drummer on a massive 20-ft. high stand built like a drum...
...Gets Slapped (translated from the Russian of Leonid Andreyev by Judith Guthrie; produced by the Theatre Guild) made box office of bewilderment when it was first produced on Broadway 24 years ago. Audiences were seldom quite sure what Andreyev's circus tragedy meant, but it fitted neatly into a culture-crazed era that wore its art on its sleeve. He Who Gets Slapped was unquestionably Slavic, questionably symbolic and flamboyantly gloomy...