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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...
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...
There are two factions: One is headed by Grand Duke Kyrill, cousin of the late Tsar, who styles himself "Tsar of All the Russias"; the other, by Grank Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, first cousin once removed of the Tsar and former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial Army, who opposes Kyrill's pretensions on the ground that they violate the wishes of the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna and the Romanov family council...