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...travelers as the world's greatest writer. Then, in 1936, Gide and a party of friends were invited by the Soviet government to Russia. While thousands looked on, Gide stood in Moscow's Red Square with Stalin and Molotov (see cut), and delivered a funeral oration for Maxim Gorki. Almost overnight, Gide, the longtime champion of individualism, became the literary hero of a totalitarian state...
...Tributary does deserve praise for its efforts throughout the past season and for its selections for the current Festival. The old maxim that it is always better to see any play than merely to read it can be examined during the next two weeks when the "Trib" will offer such seldom-seen plays as "Troilus and Cressida" and "Measure for Measure." This production of "Othello" will be prosecuted again this Saturday night and also next Wednesday...
...U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his watch was stolen...
Menzhinsky's pupil and successor was Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda, a dull-faced man with a Chaplin mustache under whose regime developed the idea of putting prisoners to work. Even children arrested for "stealing Socialist property" were put into labor camps. The writer Maxim Gorky, a great admirer of Yagoda, glorified "this policy of education by teaching the truths of Socialism. . , ." Gorky added: "People whose historical duty it was to kill some beings in order to free others are martyrs. . . ." Two years later, Yagoda was accused, among other things, of having poisoned Gorky, and condemned to death...
...reverse Art Valpey's favorite maxim, it's a case of not being able to see the trees for the forest. It's so bad, in fact, that it took this bureau ten minutes to locate the famed Little Brown...