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Dark Eyes (by Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich; produced by Jed Harris). Russian-American Actresses Miramova and Leontovich have scribbled a farce about Russian-American actresses and handed themselves the two gaudiest roles. They have banged away at the Slavic artistic temperament as if it were a set of bowling pins. Their game is good and rackety, their score not too high...
Experienced Empress. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was born too early to believe that he who controls Alaska may control the Pacific (as Rezanov, founder of the Russian-American Co., believed). When the rich merchants of Siberia pleaded with her to make Alaska a Russian colony, the Empress slapped them down. "England's experience with American colonies," she said dryly, "should be a warning to other nations...
Attending a performance at San Francisco's Opera House, portly, dignified Russian-American Basso Alexander Kipnis remained seated long after others had left. Not until mechanics took his chair apart, freeing his coattails, did Basso Kipnis depart...
...story not printed last week was that when George Hanson first returned from Moscow last winter, he was invited to attend an informal luncheon given in Manhattan by the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. Asked to make a speech, he said in the course of some good-humored remarks that U. S. businessmen need not expect to do any more business with the Soviet Union than the amount that the U. S. was prepared to extend in credit. About the same time he also attended a tea given in Manhattan by Soviet Consul General Leonid Tolokonsky...
...market for U. S. goods would open-but how & why and when and where? In an effort to answer such questions for the puzzled businessman there came into being in Philadelphia last week a new investigating agency sponsored by the American Foundation. It was called the Committee on Russian-American Relations and its membership included such potent figures as Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament, whose son Corliss is a near-Communist; Harvard Economist Frank W. Taussig; Lawyer Paul D. Cravath, a Russian recognitionist; President James D. Mooney of General Motors Export Co., whose trading field is the world at large...