Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia's desire for the Bosphorus was the root of all the trouble," maintained Professor Barnes. "This strait, her only outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, was owned by Turkey, and for three years Russian played fast and loose with Turkey, with her eye on the strait. Turkey saw through the device, and Russia turned to stirring up the Balkan States against the Ottomans. The Balkan War ended this plan, and the Czar saw that only in a general European War could his ambitions...
Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play...
...left him disgusted, horrified. Then, finally, came a letter from Katya. She was going away, as a mistress. "Don't write to me, my dear love, it is useless!" Mitya shot his brain pan off. The Author. Ivan Bunin, 56, writes with ease and economy. Intimate of the Russian Realists and Symbolists, in all his long writing career he has joined no "school." Russians extol him, but in English have appeared only The Village, in which he flays the grimy mouzhik, Dreams of Chang, which contains the sardonic "The Gentlemen from San Francisco," and this Mitya's Love...
...prima donna. She was Katiusha, loveliest of peasant girls, wrongly accused of the murder of a drunken patron; Katiusha, proud of her sordid conquests, begging money of the man who would reclaim her soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid away for several seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde. Rigoletto had its turn, Il Trovatore, a Sunday matinee of Carmen, the second week opening with Lucia. Chicagoans...
...business, knows what the Winter Garden public wants for $5.50. It offers well-drilled squads of girls in conscientious exercises. It' splashes the stage with prismatic voluptuousness. It jollies the audience. Charles ("Chic") Sale appears in Yankee caricatures, a pleasant departure from the stale Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Negro takeoffs. His comedy is the show's high spot. There is a funny skit wherein a neglected wife rebels against the oft-repeated "Good night, Mother of Three" adieus of a husband who goes out every evening. She retaliates with, "Good night, Father...