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...chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov--or Yevreynoff, if that spelling gives you more of the thrill of the exotic and esoteric...
Saturday night in Baltimore-and Representative John Philip Hill of the Third District was at home. A select party of friends attended. They smacked their lips. He served cider -semi-soft cider. It was made from apples picked up in his own orchard. A few days later, a Federal Grand Jury in Baltimore indicted him on six counts...
...Silk Association of America and you may know what sort of missionary work they are engaged in: "The work of the year is chiefly centered around the production of disease-free eggs; grafting last year's transplanted mulberries; transplanting seedlings for grafting next spring; the extension of the mulberry orchard; adding to our already large collection of mulberry varieties both foreign and Chinese; carrying on a large amount of educational work, including a special short course in sericulture; doing extension work with a selected group of farmers near Nanking; and silkworm breeding for purification of varieties and increasing silk yields...
...five acts, never finished. Four acts were sketched out, but not orchestrated. The instrumentation was done by Tom-masini. The spectacles, upon which a whole school of painters, designers, costumers and stage managers have been engaged for more than a year, included the Appian Way, a temple, an orchard and the Circus Maximus of Imperial Rome. More than two million lire were spent on the preparations. The story, of course, ends with the devastating event of the burning of the city. All of which sounds like the text of an illustrated program of the latest D. W. Griffith cinema...
...reading matter persists in obtruding itself. The same person who will march rejoicingly off to a performance of Ghosts in Italian prefers to read it in an English translation It rather than an Italian text or the original Scandinavian. We may be stirred to. the depths by The Cherry Orchard as performed by the Russians; a perusal of the same play in its mother tongue may be accomplished without agitation...