Word: nikolais
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Despatches reported that such noted feminist Communists as the widow of Nikolai Lenin have instituted a movement for the purpose of discouraging kissing as a form of greeting between Russian males...
...This year the ambitions of the club are even higher. They have now in rehearsal 'Mr. Paraclete', translated from the Russian of Nikolai Evreinov specifically for their purpose. What they will make out of it remains to be seen. But the conditions that will permit a play to be chosen purely apart from commercial considerations, and the conviction that it is the superior order of creative art which should command the attention of the Dramatic Club, surely do not show that the drama in Harvard is in quite so lamentable a state of disrepute as it might conceivably...
...ruthless Soviet commander, exterminator of many Tsarists, sometime assistant and since last January successor to Leon Trotzky in the post of Soviet War Commissar (Minister); at Moscow, after two operations for intestinal ulcer. The Soviet Government gave a funeral "second in size and impressiveness only to that of Nikolai Lenin...
...Nikolai Evreinov, author of "Mr Paraclete", this year's Dramatic Club production, is, according to Mr. Hale, one of the greatest living Russian playwrights. "'Mr. Paraclete' was written," the Boston dramatic critic said, "at the apex of this Russian author's career...
...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...