Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television got a new playwright when Gertrude Lawrence starred in a lavish Theatre Guild treatment of Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine. The Guild and NBC spared no kopeks to give the telecast an opulent, St. Petersburg flavor. Czarina Lawrence had a star-emblazoned court (David Wayne, Joan McCracken, Erik Rhodes, Micheal MacLiammóir), required six sets in NBC's big, new Studio 8G (TIME, May 3). Actress Lawrence could have claimed to be making, as well as re-creating history: ten years ago, in a telecast of Susan and God, she was the first big star...
...Louis Cardinals are favorites* to win another National League pennant is their prize pitching staff. Even in spring training, Card pitchers seemed to have something extra up the sleeve. Exhibit A last week was slender, 155-lb. Murry Dickson, a righthander, who strode out to the mound in St. Petersburg to face the big, bad New York Yankees...
Musorgsky learned early to drink like a gentleman; later he just drank. At 13, already a talented pianist, he entered the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, where according to one account, "all free time after drilling was dedicated by the cadets to dancing, amours, and drink. General Sutgof was . . . proud when a cadet came back from leave drunk with champagne, sprawled in an open carriage drawn by his own trotters...
...fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said, the loveliest woman in all Ireland...
...around a dining-room table. It was a sobor (ecclesiastical meeting) of the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America. But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp-not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg...