Word: nicolai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...
Chronologically, the 86 pictures exhibited last week ranged from a portrait of a Russian nobleman by Borovikovsky (1757-1825) to Pinsk-born Nicolai Cikovsky's Landscape...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet, for String Orchestra Bolzoni *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *"The Damnation of Faust," Excerpts Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o'-the-Wisps. Dance of the Sylphs Hungarian March (Rakoczy) *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas
Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...
...other hand the show was most effective in demonstrating how different designers handle the same play. There were settings for Hamlet by the Soviet Nicolai Akimoff, the Austrian Oscar Strnad; the Czechoslovakian Vlastislav Hofman; the German Hans Poelzig, Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager and Lee Simonson of the U. S. Emperor Jones was set by Cleon Throckmorton, Donald Oenslager of New York; Walter Rene Fuerst of Paris; Vlastislav Hofman of Prague. Other highlights among the exhibits...