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Exit Into Sunset. Yenan's most remarkable form of entertainment was the "living newspaper" in which amateur mimes enacted current events. Sample: General Eisenhower invading Normandy atop a human landing barge (see cut). Sugar-coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock...
...Heartbreak House" was written during the first World War when Shaw was in a particularly pessimistic frame of mind and admittedly inspired by Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard." Heartbreak House is built in the likeness of a ship and the ship is England, which Shaw saw as headed for the rocks. In "The Cherry Orchard" there is the hope that when the forest is cleared there will be a better world. There isn't this hope in "Heartbreak House." It ends with its people realizing themselves and crying out for annihilation. The meaning of this conclusion is not clear...
...each side of his face, which looked as if they had been made by a single bullet. Dozens of eyes peering through curtained windows saw the Russian walk unsteadily up the steps and enter Frau Lehrte's house. Soon he walked down the steps and into a nearby orchard, where he leaned wearily against an apple tree: the widow Lehrte was not home, and the Russian intended to wait for her return...
Died. Leo Bulgakov, 59, Russian-born actor-producer and onetime member of the famed Moscow Art Theater; of coronary thrombosis; in Binghamton, N.Y. Bulgakov left Russia for a U.S. tour in 1923, staged highly acclaimed Broadway and Yiddish Theater adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Lower Depths, never went back to Moscow...
Because he is bored with his own, he calls himself by many names: "The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...