Word: luka
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...every Axis soldier was needed in Russia. The Partisans had proved themselves a menace to Hitler's New Order. In a recent advance their armies, commanded by stalwart, black-haired Kosta Nagy, captured the town of Karlovac, 30 miles from the Croatian capital of Zagreb, and approached Banja Luka, Bosnia's second largest town, throwing the fear of the Lord into the hearts of the puppet government...
...Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis -and 30,000 of them waited at the railroad station for Branko Chubrilovitch, who resigned as Minister of Agriculture in protest against capitulation to Germany, and carried him through the streets on their shoulders. Everywhere they sang the new song...
...last spring here in Boston. The American production offered many interesting features, and differed greatly from either the Yiddish of the Moscow performances. Pauline Lord's Nastya was a fine achievement, the outstanding one of the performance. But the weak spot was the central character of the play, the Luka. In true American style he was made a sentimental figure, who fight have strayed in from a stained glass window. And the play was largely played in enveloping darkness. The Yiddish Art Theatre agreed with the Hopkins production in keeping the third act in the cellar, but there were other...
...interesting to see the play as given by the Moscow Art Theatre. So different was the touch, so much subtler the method so much more perfect the artistry from beginning to the end that the play seemed a different play. At the Saturday afternoon performance Mihail Tarkhanoff played Luka. It would be difficult to think of a more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed...
...third act was the best handled stage mob that I have ever seen. There was limitless life to it. Characters, regardless of importance, had individual "business" to do. The scenes that remain indelibly on the mind after seeing "The Lower Depths" were the one in which Luka hid to hear the discussion between Vassilisa and Pepel. Luka's praying by the bed of Anna, and the amazing beginning of the fourth act when there are three groups on the stage playing games and singing, and there is life and vitality and beauty in each one of the groups...