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Died. Sergei M. Trufanov, 71, once known as "Iliodor, the Mad Monk of Russia," demagogic foe of Rasputin, his onetime mentor and ally; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Trufanov lost his political struggle with Rasputin, fled unfrocked to New York, went back to Russia after the Revolution with a quixotic plan to set himself up as the "Russian Pope" and revamp the Orthodox Church to suit the Bolsheviks. Embittered and disillusioned, he came back to the U.S. for good in 1921, became a Baptist, got work as a janitor, passed his final decades in obscurity...
...Hydrogen 12. Gurdjieff seems to have been a remarkable blend of P. T. Barnum, Rasputin, Freud, Groucho Marx and everybody's grandfather. To his disciples, he was a great man, a modern saint. To doubters, he was an astute phony peddling intellectual narcotics to spiritual neurotics. But all sides seemed to agree that he had picked up, as he acknowledged himself, an astonishing amount of useful information...
Married. Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry F. Gerguson), sixtyish, bugle-nosed, professional phony (he has claimed to be the assassin of Rasputin, a son of Victorian Prime Minister Gladstone, a cousin of Czar Nicholas), now a Beverly Hills restaurateur, who gave his age as 48; and Gloria Lister, 24, his ex-secretary; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...play's average American hero is Smith, a newspaperman. The average American villain is his employer, a publisher named Charles MacPherson, who is a mixed incarnation of Hearst, McCormick and Rasputin. He sends little Harry Smith to Moscow with orders to write a book on ten reasons why the Russians want war. However, relates Hero Smith: "In Russia I became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired...
...Russia accepted it all as a true picture of contemporary U.S. life. A Russian girl went to the opening with U.S. Correspondent Newbold Noyes Jr. (whose grandfather-no Rasputin-is president of the Washington Evening Star Newspaper Co. and former president of the Associated Press). She regarded Noyes with "deeper and deeper horror as the evening wore on," finally declared: "Mr. Simonov would not write it if this were not the truth. Here it is not as it is in your country. Here one must be able to prove what one says." Declared the Moscow News: "Simonov's play...