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...sought the Pope's assistance in annulling his marriage, the Emperor heard of it and made him promise to see Marie only once again. Rudolph kept his word. Author Claude Anet (real name: Jean Schopfer), onetime (1892) French tennis champion, collects Persian art, has translated from the Russian Pushkin, from the Persian Omar Khayyam. Other books: End of the World, While the Earth Shook, Ariane...
Alexander Pushkin once wrote a story which concerned an old countess and her granddaughter, three cards and the young girl's lover. The old countess was called Pique-Dame (Queen of Spades) because years before as Belle of St. Petersburg she had attended masquerades in such a costume and because-this was only whispered about the court-she knew three cards by which a gambler could infallibly make his fortune. The soldier, Heran, loved Lisa, the granddaughter, but he had no money. The countess's secret preyed upon him and he hid himself one night in her room...
...first meeting him: "He is the greatest poet since Pushkin...
...Valentino has pulled himself successfully out of the mud. The last drying flakes of his tour in favor of Mineralava Beauty Clay have disappeared, and he is once more a foremost favorite of the screen. This latest picture is among his best. It was adapted from the novel of Pushkin, and treats of a Russian youth who (figuratively) thumbed his nose at the Tsarina and considerably displeased the royal household. He becomes a Cossack and makes love, without too much exaggeration, to Vilma Banky...
...Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian composer, Reinhold Gliere; Carmencita and the Soldier, with the Bizet music for Carmen, a wholly new libretto drawn directly from Merimee's story by the Russian poet, Constantin Lipskerpff; Offenbach's La Perichole; a triple bill from Pushkin entitled Love and Death...