Word: russian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Comrades and 1 Invention is the first sample of Russian humor ever presented in the U. S. in cinema. The three comrades, one big, one little male and one, Olga Tretlakova, lusty and white-toothed female with no waistline, used an invention for making boxes as the mechanism for laughing at inventions, manufacturers, the Soviet government, country life. And U. S. audiences laughed at humor in the style of Gogol as heartily as in the past they have laughed at humor in the style of Sennett...
...agent for the Soviet Government and the International General Electric Co. of New York have concluded a deal whereby $25,000,000 worth of U.S. electric apparatus may be sent to Russia within the next five years. Thus was pointedly marked a commercial rapport between the two countries. The Russian press was jubilant over the deal; Economic Life of Moscow talked about a breach in the ''credit blockade...
...confidence by brilliant service in the field, Chiang became his private secretary and served devotedly through all the vicissitudes of the South China Republic, founded by Dr. Sun at Canton. When the Great Leader died in 1925, Disciple Chiang Kai-shek had just completed an arrangement with the Russian Soviet Government whereby millions of rubles were furnished to equip the Nationalist Army in Canton and launch it upon a northward conquest of all China...
George Bancroft is as good a heavy as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Von Sternberg is as good a director as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Baclanova is as good a Russian hot house plant as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. "The Docks of New York" is as good an underworld picture as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time...
...Lipmans migrated about Russia. The father carried the Russian forenames Michael Gregory. The mother was Ida Birkhahn. Charles Bernard was born at Moscow (1883). His older brother Jacob Goodale was born at Friedrichstadt...