Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no ragged proletariat in Russia, but a well-ordered community." Thus, with a somewhat defensive air, spoke William H. Hamilton, Assistant Vice President of the Guaranty Co., Manhattan, as he returned last week from a tour of Soviet Russia, made in company with Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. & Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. "Everywhere we received excellent treatment-not relatively excellent, but excellent!" said Mr. Hamilton. "Americans are welcomed in Russia and are given every courtesy. . . . The Russians are doing amazing things. . . . "I used to think that the president of the National City Bank and the president...
Abraham Manievich, native of Russia, resident of New York City, had finished painting. He stepped back, squinted, scowled. The canvas before him, good though it was, did not warm his esthetic zones. Several days later he was painting again on the same canvas, but on the other side. Pleased, he hummed to himself-now he was getting that sober contentment which his art demanded. Sonn of the neighbors called him Queer Manievich; wiser friends spoke of him as Shrewd Manievich. Last week some of his two-sided paintings were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel galleries in Manhattan. Buyers, undecided which...
...questioned. There are no details to be found as to how the money collected is actually spent in this effort. From what can be learned, it is more than possible that the methods of the Federation work directly to controvert a good intention. The operation of the Fund in Russia is a case in point, where little money is sent in the first place, and where, on the other hand, there is said to the discrimination in favor of certain economic and religious creeds that are not universally accepted, and whose support entails more moralizing and disagreeable proselytizing than...
Today it is the Chicago Opera Company, which calls him from his haunts with the martial strains of Borls Godunoff. If ever there was a story fit to be set to music it is the story of this early Czar of Russia, and eminently fitting is the music which Moussorgsky was inspired to write. In it he has embodied the fierce old Muscovite Boyar himself; in it is the spirit of the half Oriental Princes who fought to drive the Tartan hordes from the gates; in it and through it is the note of something primitive, something untamed like...
Polykushka. The story of this Russian film's production at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse comes as a surprise to natives who grumble about "foreign invaders." It was made in 1918, when Russia had just entered the turmoil of social reconstruction and film studios, in consequence, were crippled. Several years after its creation, the Director, M. Nelidov, fled to the U. S., sought occupation for his talent, found only a $20-a-week job in a bank. Cinema magnates, when they granted interviews, asked for samples of his work. He could offer nothing, because the Socialist Party...