Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gorky, world-famed as a beetle-browed dramatist, storyteller, vagabond, and apostle of gloom (The Lower Depths), has decided that the mass of Russian journalism, directly under Soviet control though it is, is far too self-critical. Our Achievements will paint only the bright side of Soviet life...
Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...
...version, they will put this aside and perform Boris from the original score." The Rimsky version became a model for opera houses of the world and the medium for Basso Chaliapin's incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press and announced...
...variety of selections will appear on the program. After two movements from Bach, there will be German, Russian, and English folk songs. Cesar Franck, Schumann, Saint-Saens, and Schubert will be represented; the evening will close with renditions, on two planos, from Raff, Howe, and Strauss...
Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what...