Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene for the mysterious first act of the Dramatic Club's Russian comedy "Mr. Paraclete," shown in the above photograph, is the work of Murray Pease '26, who executed last year the scenes designed by Dos Passos for the club's production of "The Moon Is a Gong." The model stage-set, both designed and executed by Pease, will go on display in the hall at the Union on Monday morning...
...scenery in the Russian drama is particularly significant, "continued Professor Pope, "because it plays a more integral part in producing the atmosphere of the piece. The stage set does not, in the Russian theatre, represent merely a locality for the action of the play, nor a more background for the players; the attempt is always to produce, through the scene, an effect on the audience corresponding with the spirit of the piece...
...told how three American Negro girls and seven American Negro young men are now undergoing in Russia three years' training for the Russian "diplomatic service." Nothing of moment happened at the Congress. Resolutions of discontent were passed...
...zenith of his power the last Tsar Nicholas of Russia was notorious as a faineant who allowed others to direct even his policies. A sharp question would probably have revealed that he had no idea whether there was a Russian garrison in Persia or not. Had Nicholas possessed the grasp of detail of a Napoleon he could not but have known of a certain utterly obscure private in that garrison whom the world has come to know as Reza Khan, Dictator of Persia...
Nikolai Evreinov, author of "Mr Paraclete", this year's Dramatic Club production, is, according to Mr. Hale, one of the greatest living Russian playwrights. "'Mr. Paraclete' was written," the Boston dramatic critic said, "at the apex of this Russian author's career...