Word: potemkinism
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Modern and Beacon--"Potemkin"--11 to 11.30 o'clock.--The Russian Soviet makes a real bid for recognition...
...Uritsky Palace, onetime Taurid Palace, was built by Catherine the Great for her lover, Gregory Aleksandrovitch Potemkin. It was there, 21 years ago, that the first Duma (Parliament) met, only to be suppressed by the fiat of the Autocrat of All the Russias, Nicholas...
Beau Geste, Better 'Ole, Big-Parade, Faust, Old Ironsides, Potemkin, Scarlet Letter...
...Armored Cruiser Prince Potemkin. In search of Broadway favor came three foreign films last week: Faust (German), Michael Strogoff (French), Potemkin (Russian). Potemkin has been called the supreme achievement in cinema. The scenario follows the simple historical account of mutiny aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot...
...curious thing about Potemkin is that Director S. M. Eisenstein, striving religiously to make his film the drama of a group, almost permits one character to emerge as hero. Such an effect would have ruined the general scheme, yet so keenly does the need for individual enterprise make itself felt, in even a glorified crowd, that the proletarian artist must give it at least grudging recognition...