Word: mazeppas
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...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...
Last week both teams were a little rusty and out of practice. When they did hit the ball, it rolled a few feet and stopped. Tim Holt, normally a two-goal player, hit nothing all afternoon. Charles Farrell raced around on Mazeppa-maned ponies. Nobody scored until the fifth period. The most frequent sounds from the grandstand were groans. Then Big Boy Williams got mad because Walter Wanger kept hooking his mallet. Aidan Roark, who hadn't played all winter, got tired of the monotony. The two dueled for the ball. In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged...