Word: mashenka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being given for the members of the Harvard Dramatic Club, whose presentation of the Russian play, "Mashenka", was given this winter in Cambridge and Newport...
...Mashenka the Russian, is going to see the Navy, but it was a hard fight. Invited to give a performance of their successful play for the officers and men of the Naval Construction Camp at Davisville, Rhode Island, the company and crew will hit the stage there at 8 o'clock Sunday night. But it was a long fight...
...Mashenka (Artkino) is a simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
...club itself fared better under administrative apathy than has drama as a whole; only occasional resounding flops have marred its record. But the recent success "Mashenka" probably concludes the Club's activity for the duration, and with this suspension the last taste of the theatre at Harvard will be gone...
Commenting favorably on "Mashenka," the HDC play, Reinhardt stated that the competent production of Russian works would do a great deal in furthering American-Russian cultural relations. The play, recently translated from the original tongue, is a modern Soviet work...