Word: mazeppas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parents of U.S. college students had a chance last week to find out how the students spend their money. Indiana University's Assistant Professor of Economics Mary Mazeppa Crawford had studied Indiana spending to the decimal place (Student Folkways and Spending at Indiana University, 1940-41, A Study in Consumption; Columbia University Press; $3.50).* A good state university, neither very rich nor very poor, Indiana could be considered an average guinea pig. Sample Crawford findings...
...Prince Leon Mazeppa von Razumovsky, socalled, who calls himself sole surviving descendant of the Count Razumovsky whom Catherine the Great named as hetman of the Ukraine. In the U.S., where he was known as Jacov Makorin, he was once a member of the Marine Corps. After World War I (in which he did not fight) he became an antique dealer, later found a good living in pushing his claims to the hetmanship of the Ukraine, backed by Canadian Ukrainians and some U.S. speculators interested in oil concessions. When last heard of, he was living in Italy...
From Maine to North Carolina last week, converted barns were clamorous with off-season revivals. Most ambitious bit of resuscitation was undertaken by The County Theatre of Suffern, N. Y., which presented Mazeppa, or The Fierce Tartarian Steed. Hard to deduce from this over-whimsified, bucolic performance is the fact that Mazeppa is one of the most ancient and honorable horse operas in the language...
First concocted as a poem by Byron, Mazeppa's most famous adaptation for the stage described the life and hard times of the crown prince of Tartary. As a page boy in the castle of a Polish King, Mazeppa inspires a gaudy first-act curtain by shooting the fiance of the King's only daughter. Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their...
Among the fiery steeds that pranced off with Mazeppa were Black Bess, Flying Cloud, Toodles, and one sobersided mount named James Melville...