Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Herbert Smith of the British Miners' Federation revealed last week that $4,000,000 (?822,634) had been contributed to British strike funds by Russian labor. Said he: "Thank God there is some Christianity in Russia T A tenth of all we have paid out to relieve the miners has come from Moscow...
...Humble. In reproving contrast to The Noose (see below) stands a play fashioned from Dostoievsky's Crime and Punishment. Herein a Russian student is goaded to murder by what he considers a rational motive: to rid the world of a monster. His tortured philosophy fails to comprehend the final principle of rational thought, "the law that there shall be law." The story-teller fastens upon the young man's soul, wrings it, twists it, wracks it, as only a Russian can, or would. The play follows the novel's torments through hours of merciless misery. That...
Boston Opera House--Mordkin's Russian Ballet--8.15 o'clock. A few Russian revolutions...
...Manhattan, a Bach choral prelude and Brahms's C minor symphony issued in rapturous perfection from the gloom of old Carnegie Hall. Even a tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their...
...Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...