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Died. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 49, Russia's brilliantly inventive cinema genius (Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky); of a heart ailment; in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS). Hobbled by Communist doctrines of "art," especially in his last years, he made little protest, even though his own great talents were emasculated by the state's demands...
Germans did not seem inspired to cooperation by the creation of Bizonia. Recently, at a party rally, bumptious demagogic Social Democrat Kurt Schumacher had shouted: "We Germans don't want to sell ourselves to either side, not for the Potemkin promises of Marshal Zhukov nor for the CARE packages from America." Apparently the Germans were not yet ready to contribute anything to the future of Europe except hard words and the hope that they might translate U.S.-Russian division into German nationalist advantage...
...part biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...
...When Catherine II of Russia toured her empire in 1787, Prince Gregory Potemkin sent workers ahead of her route to put up false facades on buildings to give a deceptive air of prosperity...
...cleared to the U.S. in only two hours, instead of the usual seven or eight. A New York Times correspondent tested the new freedom with a wisecrack: "Russian hospitality has seen to it that Moscow is cleaned up like a Dutch kitchen-or as some cynics say, like a Potemkin village."* The censor just waved the copy by. As an added coal of fire, the censor got off an enthusiastic note to the Gannett papers' Cecil Dickson, congratulating him on his fine story about Stalin at the opera...