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...Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the occult, semi-religious Theosophical Society, had something that brought savants and social leaders to her feet and keeps her memory hallowed by the 50,000-odd Theosophists scattered around the world. What she had and how she used it is expertly told in a new biography, Priestess of the Occult, by ex-journalist Gertrude Marvin Williams (Knopf; $3.50). Loyal Theosophists will wince at this well-documented story of the Society's origins...
...Nina Petrovna (Solar Films), a French picture, has all the panoply and poohbah of a Hollywood super-colossal. Nina is a Tsarist floozy who traipses to Vienna breaks several hearts, lies like a lady for the man she loves, fades out with a bullet in her heart. What distinguishes Nina Petrovna is that Nina is Junoesque Isa Miranda, whose gaunt loveliness combines the allure of Marlene Dietrich with the expressiveness of Greta Garbo. With Garbo vacationing on the Mediterranean (TIME, March...
...Tovarich" is a delicious mixture of first-rate humor and first-rate drama. The situation of the old Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
...convert them. I only try to wake them up so they can find out what life is really all about." 2) Jiddu Krishnamurti has yet to make a clean break with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, aimed to form "a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity." encourage the study of comparative religion and philosophy, investigate "the unexplained laws of nature [including reincarnation] and the powers latent in man." 3) Strictly, the land on which Krishnamurti spoke was held until 1929 by an affiliate of the Society...
...play at the Tremont tells of the minor and restrained happenings at the country home of a bustling efficient Russian country gentleman. His wife, Natalie Petrovna, is bored with him and with Rakitin, who is a friend of the husband and a too earnest, too reasonable lover of the wife. A handsome, bashful tutor comes to the household to take charge of the education of young Kolia. The wife falls in love with Aleksei Nikolaevich (the tutor). Her ward, 17-year-old Viera, also falls in love with the tutor, who imagines himself in love with Natalie Petrovna...