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...Clifford Odets, whose "The Country Girl," starring Uta Hagen, will open October 16. Beyond any doubt, however, the British are the guests of honor this season. Christopher Fry, the brilliant English playwright, will have two productions: "The Lady's Not for Burning," with John Gielgud, in late October, and Neva Patterson in "Ring Round the Moon," which will probably be booked for November. Both plays have already proved highly successful in London. Another British import will be D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in October --good news for Gilbert & Sullivan enthusiasts. "The Late Edwina Black" is due in early November...
Even before Peter the Great built his famed northern capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
From Soviet ex-Minister to Sweden Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontay, 74 (also known as the Madame Pompadour of the Russian Revolution), came a bit of rhapsodic reminiscence: "I remember the room in Smolny where the Central Committee met. The windows looked out on to the Neva, and a strong wind from the river rattled the panes. One electric lamp burned dimly over a small table around which the Committee members met. The situation was tense. ... On Lenin's right sat Stalin in his dark Russian shirt, his silent self-possession forming a strong contrast to the excited tirades of some...
Last week, at a convention of pediatricians in Skytop, Pa., Dr. Louis K. Diamond, 44-year-old assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard, and Dr. Neva M. Abelson of Philadelphia, reported on recent studies of the Rh factor, disclosed the heartening news that it was no cause for panic. Some conclusions...
...misty morning the signal came. As the men moved out, they saw silhouetted the massive St. Isaac's Cathedral, the battered Admiralty, the grey ships on the Neva. On the broad, cold Nevski Prospect the passers-by guessed: the hour was near...