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...Cherry Orchard" was never received well in Russia because it treats social change so as to provoke sympathy for a fading aristocracy rather than a rising bourgeoisie. In adapting this play to the American scene, Joshua Logan has carried this treatment further by indicating that the new classes were not ready for their new position, and in doing this he transforms a fine naturalistic drama into a less brilliant but still effective picture of social tragedy. In addition he brings back the always welcome Helen Hayes...
Near the end of last year, the colony had ten cows; 50 of its 320 acres had been cleared for vegetable gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...
...look at our apple trees and say, 'My, my, just look at all those dollars hanging on the trees.' They think we just sat on the porch and watched them grow. They don't know that a lot of good hard work has gone into that orchard...
Corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, cattle and hogs-everything had "done fine." Buildings gleamed in a new coat of white paint. New cider and fruit packing houses, equipped with stainless steel tanks and refrigerating units, stood near the main house. There was a new $1,500 orchard duster and an elevator that hoisted corn from the wagons into the cribs...
Amherst's golf team, the only squad that beat Harvard in regular competition last year, meets the varsity at 2 p.m. today at the Orchard Country Club in South Hadley...