Word: petrovna
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Theosophists. On Point Loma is the International Headquarters of the vast Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, long led by the late Katherine Tingley. The late Lyman Judson Gage, San Diego banker, Secretary of the Treasury in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, was an ardent Point Loma Theosophist. The cult attempts to harmonize with all great faiths, but is deeply colored in its observances and specific modes of thought by Eastern philosophers and prophets. In glass-domed buildings on Point Loma children may attend a Theosophical school. Excellent is the musical...
...scene is laid in a Russian provincial village. Anna Petrovna, a General's widow, who is frightfully in debt to Jew moneylenders and ought to be saving every kopek, is giving a party, with all the fixings -Chinese lanterns in the garden, music, fireworks, plenty of drink. All the neighbors are there, among them Schoolteacher Platonov, intelligent, charming, young, popular: the perfect lady-killer, but with too much Hamlet in his makeup. His wife adores him; they have a little son. Other women adore him too: his hostess, the General's widow, her daughter-in-law, Sofya, just...
...with Grekova, whom he humiliates by kissing soundly and then throwing on a table. When he gets home in the small hours, his adoring wife is waiting up for him, but he will not go to bed; he sits outside and indulges in remorse for his disgraceful conduct. Anna Petrovna comes looking for him; Sofya sends him a letter. The kind-hearted fellow promises to make Anna his mistress, then promises Sofya he will run away with her. Ensuing complications grow too much for him: his wife leaves him, he takes to drink in earnest, threatens to shoot himself. Sofya...
Platonov, but finds he likes him. too well to do it. Finally, when Platonov's talented irresolution has landed everybody in a pretty pickle, and he is willing to do anything possible to make amends, Anna Petrovna's good sense seems about to straighten out the tangle; but Sofya, still madly in love with the worthless fellow, rushes in and shoots him. In spite of this violent finale, the play may be considered a comedy...
...real Chekhovisms would be lost. From time to time his well-known' accents are heard: "When I philosophize I lie terribly." Says Platonov angrily to Vengerovitch: "There's no out-arguing a half-educated Jew." Meekly replies Vengerovitch: "No, there isn't. . . ." Says Anna Petrovna, trying to overcome Platonov's scruples: "Why, it's very simple: a woman has come to you . . . she loves you, and you love her. . . . The weather is lovely . . . what could be more simple? Where does philosophy come in? Or politics? Or do you want to show...