Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cecil B. DeMille's "The Volga Boatman," now showing at the Fenway. In this, and in many other respects, the film is typical of De Mille's technique as a director. His scene is Russia in 1917, his theme the strife between the blue-blooded aristocrats and the Russian Reds. It is a film showing all of DeMille's excellences and all his defects. The scenario was written by a Rumanian, Konrad Bercovici, and its original motive is the song of the same name, made famous in this country by the Chauve Souris. Incidently the song is better than...
...appreciate keenly the sentiments expressed by the Congress and its affirmation that the Russian emigres are ready to second my efforts to save the fatherland...
...plans must not now anticipate the future destiny of Russia. . . . Our people deprived today of all liberties, alone have the right to establish the bases of their existence It is they who will found the wealth, glory and greatness of Russian power...
Amnesty, Gift. The Congress "granted" amnesty to all Soviet Russian soldiers and "confirmed" to the Russian peasants the ownership of all lands granted them by the Soviet government, in hopes of winning their onetime subjects' gratitude and support...
...know something about the channels through which others express the longing of their souls in worship," Dr. Ernest Bourner Allen of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Oak Park, III., has devoted recent Sundays to "Little Journeys in Worship," has presented to his truly tolerant congregation "A Morning of Russian Anthems," "Jewish Forms and Music," "The Episcopal Forms of Worship" and "A Jewish Passover Song...