Word: mashenka
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...your case, there is an added difficulty. Mary appears to have been written 45 years ago in Russian. Furthermore, your introduction contains many things that the average English-speaking reader may have trouble with. You say, for example, that the novel was originally titled Mashenka, with the accent on the first a (pronounced as in ask) and a palatalized n as in mignon. Even among my colleagues, all of whom pronounce mignon correctly, your instructions caused a considerable phonetic tangle, not to mention knots of rather nasty plosives and fricatives...
Idler's policy of introducing new plays side-by-side with established classic has resulted in such past successor as the 1937 performance of Auden's "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and 1942's Mashenka...
...James's unpublished and heretofore unproduced work is the fourth major joint production of HDC and Idler. Predecessors of "Owen Wingrave" in this respect are "Mashenka," which was produced on Broadway after its staging here and of which the Dramatic Club received many requests for performances in other cities; the dynamic "Dona Rosita"; and last year's hit, "Playboy of the Western World...
Officers announced that a full complement of men is needed. It was also disclosed that "Mashenka," the Russian play whose first showing in English was given by the HDS last spring, will be produced on Broadway as "Masha" with Dudley Diggs...
History has repeated itself in a way, for Putnam's daughter, Anne Cabot Putnam, Radcliffe '46, has already attracted Hollywood attention by outstanding performances in the recent HDC-Idler presentation of "Mashenka...