Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Bennet, now playing in Boston in Andreyev's Russian character-comedy, "He Who Gets Slapped", will speak at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon under the auspices of the 47 Workshop, in lower Massachusetts Hall. The meeting will be open to members and workers of the 47 Workshop, the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Departments of Music and Fine Arts, Comparative Literature 19, and English...
...Brasol was born in the Government of Poltava, Russia, of Russian parents. After his graduation in 1908 from the University of Petrograd with the degree of Bachelor of Law, he immediately entered the Department of Justice of the Russian Government, and in 1910 was made Assistant District Attorney at Petrograd. He served in this capacity and subsequently as District Attorney in various other Russian cities...
...Russian fad, like the Oriental fad of a few years earlier, is sweeping our circles of art. It seems to have been opened by the amazingly popular "Chauve-Souris", which has already run into three editions; and it is to be carried on by an event far more notable artistically, the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York in January. Boston has just felt the effects in the arrival of "He Who Gets Slapped". The Dramatic Club here, in selecting Andreyev's "The Life of Man", has acted with foresight. Even if it had no other ballast...
...worth-while importations are Russian. From Paris to Boston next week, via New York, comes Cecile Corel. Comedienne in double sense, who declared last year that she would never come to America unless she could have champagne to bathe in, and followed with the enigmatic remark, on reaching New York, that America's air was like champagne. New York has found time to lavish praise upon her: the Boston repertoire, at the Opera House next week, is given elsewhere on this page...
Violently and quickly is the political pendulum swinging. A vital change comes in the policy of the Russian Government, a conservative reaction sweeps England, a Liberal ministry, is overthrown in Germany, a black-shirted dictator arises in Italy. Is the pendulum tending toward equilibrium again or is it becoming magnetized? And in that event on which side is the magnet...