Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vodka should never be tasted, sipped, or mulled upon the tongue. It is esteemed not for its taste but for the warm and stimulant sensations with which it fires the entire gullet. Therefore Russian epicures invariably down vodka in long, potent scorching swigs...
...Days That Shook the World, heralded as another masterpiece from Amkino (Russian) studios, producers of Potemkin, turned out to be a brilliant, tiresome piece of Soviet propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have...
...young Russian, no money in his pocket, trudged up the steps of the Moscow Conservatory and asked for a scholarship. Scholarships were scarce, they told him. There was just one left?and that for the double-bass. The boy hesitated, turned as if to go and then came back, asked if they would teach him the double-bass...
...Seas: Sharks and natives in swimming. The Night Watch: Billie Dove on the witness stand. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy gets his man. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the vitaphone. Kriemhild's Revenge: Sequel to Siegfried, last of the great German pictures. Three Comrades and one Invention: Russian comedy. ''Lonesome": Telephone girl's holiday done in the same style as The Crowd. (B) Our Dancing Daughters ($90,000?Capitol, Manhattan); The Singing Fool ($53.000?McVickers, Chicago); Mother Knows Best ($8,000?Carthay Circle. Los Angeles); Excess Baggage ($14,000 Loew's, Toronto...
...program will include Russian folksongs, works by Tachaikovsk, Schubert, Mozart, and Johann Strauss. The Concert will be free and open to the public...