Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oliver M. Sayler, in his history of the "Russian theatre Under the Revolution" gives a detailed account of his life. "Nikolai is in his early prime, yet he has accomplished already a lifetime of work," states Mr. Sayler. "From his first visit to a playhouse at the age of five, at Yekaterinburg, he was lured to the stage, and he straightway established his own theatre in his home. There at the age of seven he produced his first dramatic composition, "A Dinner With the Minister of State...
...seventh class of the gymnasium he conceived a plan to flee to America, but when he found how many others were going there, he changes his schemed and for the sake of originality substituted Africa for the western hemisphere. But Nikolai surrendered his dreams of adventure to go to the school of Law in Petrograd, where he soon found an outlet for his instinct for the theatre in the Legal Dramatic Circle. There he appeared in "The Robbers" and 'Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man." There too he produced his first serious musical composition, the opera "The Power of Magic...
Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, emphatic Russian, closed the concert with Tchaikowski's "1812 Overture," and as the strains of the "Marseillaise" and the Russian National anthem floated out in the final bars -Boom Boom! Boom!-siege guns they sounded-fired back stage and the smoke floated out over the audience. The multi-national multi-national multitude went mad applauding, and, of course, Conductor Sokoloff made a little speech...
...play chosen is one written by Russia's most modernistic dramatist-producer. "The Paraclete," with the sub-title "for some a comedy, for others a drama" is a four-act play by Nikolai Evreinov. It will be translated from the original Russian text by W. L. Laurence '12, and will be directed by Edward Massey '15. Mr. Massey has directed the last few Dramatic Club productions with increasing success, and it is expected that the production this fall will meet with even greater approbation than has been accorded the other plays of the Dramatic Club...
Upon registering the mortgage, Hartvigsen learned a larger one was ahead of it. That crafty Mack! And Rosa kept putting off their wedding, until young Nikolai Arentsen, her former betrothed, came home with his law learning, opened an office and began to get cases thick and fast. Rosa conveyed to the big fisherman that she was sorry, but . . . Soon he was "Benoni" again to everyone. He gave Mack notice for his mortgage money but went on working with him. He had to. Mack knew business, Benoni nothing. By chance Benoni learned there were lead and silver along a stretch...