Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Province and the Tartar Republic are the only parts of the Soviet Union to fulfill 100% the grain shipping quotas set by the Soviet State. Last week virtuous Moscovites and Tartars were rewarded by Dictator Josef Stalin. He decreed as a signal boon that all collective and even individual peasant farms in Moscow Province and the Tartar Republic are authorized to sell any surplus grain which they may have left for what it will bring...
...honest modernists admired and respected Gari Melchers. He was an Academician, but an Academician who continued to grow. His style, from the polished realism of his early Paris canvases through the brightly colored Dutch peasant scenes of the 1900's to the solid portraits of his later work, was never fixed. At the age of 71 he produced a nude study, "Virginia Beach," which the Whitney Museum hung last month with its biennial exhibition of young modernists...
...Hayes played children's parts for Vitagraph in 1910 but The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which came after she had been spoken of frequently as the ablest dramatic actress on the U. S. stage, was her first noteworthy venture in the cinema. She had the role of a French peasant girl who takes up with a thief and turns prostitute to support her son. Like Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontanne made her debut in cinema last year and her performance in The Guardsman was one of three nominated for the Academy's award. The third was aged Marie Dressier...
...Budapest, Camillo Felleghy and his troupe of four strolling players hopefully mangled Shakespeare's King Lear before an impressed peasant audience who ended by calling for "Author! Author!" When Felleghy responded wearing a false beard hooked over his ears, bowing his thanks, three Shakespeare lovers who had seen King Lear at the Budapest State Theatre leaped to their feet, hurled eggs & onions at Felleghy-Shakespeare. rushed onto the stage and beat him with canes. In Budapest County Court they were fined 20 pengoes ($3.49) each...
...Roman Catholic Church has lately noticed in rural Europe an increase of morbid, ultra-mystical worshippers and of strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical...