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...trial at Paris last week was one Comrade Saveli Litvinov, round-faced Russian of ebullient-humor, who is charged with forging notes to a total value of more than $1,000,000. He claims to be the brother of Soviet Russia's Foreign Minister, moon-faced Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov...
Five thousand zealous believers in Lenin's maxim Religion is Opium for The People assembled on the eve of his deathday anniversary before the monastery, dwarfed by its enormous walls, resolute to destroy its high-spiried belfries. As the chief electrician stepped to the dynamite switch nothing could have been more appropriate than that old French revolutionary chorus "Vive le son! Vive le son!! Vive le son de I'explosion !!!"* But instead the Comrades roared their own Red Flag, their International...
...Bottom is a new translation by William L. Laurence, Russian:born U. S. newsman (New York World) of Maxim Gorki's Na Due (usually called The Lower Depths). Directed by Leo Bulgakov, persistent exponent of Russian drama in the U. S., onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, it is the first Manhattan production of the play since the Moscow company visited the city five years ago. Despite the fact that Mr. Laurence's version employs such U. S. colloquialisms as ''bunk . . . all wet . . . caught with his pants down," it preserves the strange compound of squalor...
...Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 62, son of an upholsterer, long-time associate of social pariahs, wrote ATa Due in 1903 when his short stories had already made him a world figure and his literary friend Anton Chekhov (see p. 64 and below) had challenged him to write a good play. He is the only great prerevolutionary Russian man-of-letters who enjoys the cordiality of Soviet authorities. His latest novels are infused with Soviet doctrine. For his health, he spends the winters in Italy. He once shocked his hosts in the U. S. when it was discovered that...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...