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Vasya's wife Ludmilla (Beatrice De Neergaard) is a plump, "undeveloped" peasant who cannot join the Party because she insists on retaining such "bourgeois knickknacks" as a canary, sofa pillows, curtains, rubber plants. She also has "medieval notions" about making men comfortable. Abram's wife Tonya (Fraye Gilbert), on the other hand, catechizes her husband on "ideology," hounds him with a book when he is hungry. The couples inevitably end by quarreling with their mates, longing for a rearrangement. When the poet learns what has happened to his collective paradise, he mutters bitterly, "Sabotage!" The rearrangement is effected...
...Lyons-Malamuth version is reported to be considerably less cautious than that presented in Russia. As staged last week the play includes a ludicrous cartoon of a small, shrill, Leninist stickler who accuses Ludmilla of "right deviations" and insists on "liquidating the canary." Ludmilla defines a bourgeois thus: "A bourgeois is a person who's got something that someone else wants...
...hated him, his peasant wife Grusha, who feared and loved him in the old peasant way. Sergei was a believing, practicing Communist, with nothing but hatred for the old order, with no time or interest for anything but the present and the future. Then in 'Moscow he met Ludmilla, a member of the intelligentsia-to Sergei, a "lady." Their attraction was mutual, and Sergei's qualms about "ladies" temporarily subsided when they began living together. Gradually he discovered that Ludmilla was an incorrigible embodiment of the old order. Her love for him was so possessive she could hardly...
...despair, Ludmilla began to deceive him with an old lover. Truthful himself, for a long time he never suspected her, but was alarmed at her emotional capers, came to the conclusion that "Women now must alter their psychology, or die." To Sergei, Ludmilla's absolute dependence on someone else, her desire to fill his whole life, was completely immoral. When at last he discovered she had been deceiving him he was disgusted, relieved. He left her a note: "We belong to different worlds. Even so, you are the best of the women of the old world. But our very...
Hopak from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" by Moussorgaky, Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" by Glinka, Hymn to the Sun from "Le Coq d'Or" by Rimsky-Korsakov, Soviet Iron Foundry by Mossolov...