Word: mashenka
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...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...
Last night's American premiers of Afinogenov's "Mashenka" afforded the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler an ample opportunity to experiment with a new play, and to handle it as they saw fit. It was an opportunity that wasn't wasted, either, for the production, unhampered by a mass of traditional forms of presentation, was staged with an originality and restraint that merit commendation for everyone connected with...
Anne Putnam is just what the author ordered in the title role of Mashenka. She's sweet without being sloppy, and sparkling without the dangers of effervescing. Igor Gorsky, as her secret love, roars through the part of an enthusiastic Soviet geologist, Leonid, apparently bent on getting the Five-Year Plan through before the rains...
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...