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During the early years of the Russian Revolution, its leaders were a great deal more preoccupied with shortening human life than lengthening it. But times change. Moscow now has an Institute for the Prolongation of Life, headed by Septuagenarian Biologist Olga Lepeshinskaya...
Last week Comrade Professor Lepeshinskaya had some eye-opening news to pass along. In a lecture to the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge, she reported that previous studies of some 40,000 centenarians in the Ukraine alone had turned up "numerous cases of people 150 years old and more, with their liveliness, memory and working ability still intact." This, she said, showed that "the age of 150 or 160 is not the limit to life...
Meanwhile in Moscow, last week, an audience that had practically forgotten about The Red Poppy crammed the Bolshoi Theater for the crowning event of the Moscow ballet season. The event was about as revolutionary as the late Czarina's tiara. It consisted of top-flight Soviet Ballerina Lepeshinskaya leaping through the enchanted 19th Century fairyland of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty...
...with young soldiers whose tunics were splashed with large and brilliant enameled medals. In the Park of Culture and Rest, a mélange of uplift, Coney Island and sylvan charm, family groups sat quietly under the lime trees on rest days. At the ballet Mmes. Lepeshinskaya and Cherkasova fluttered back on their points time after time for encores. Reciters read Pushkin's poetry to the crowded halls. The Red Army chorus sang to packed theaters. Factory girls and soldiers held parties and waltzed swiftly to the tootlings of brass bands. A new play, Russian People...
...Moscow Author Reynolds went to the circus, watched a Russian soccer game, talked with his Russian barber ("the only barber in Moscow who spoke any English"), flirted with Ballet Dancer Lepeshinskaya, fell in love with the Russians...