Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso, $200,000 on a personal contract with Adolph Zukor to make a singing picture for Paramount...
...occasion marked the first time since the War that a duly accredited representative of Rumania has appeared in Moscow. For eleven years Rumania and Russia have been at odds, in fact ever since Rumania possessed herself in 1918 of the rich Russian province of Bessarabia (pop. 2,600.000). Thereafter the govern-ment at Bucharest refused to recognize the Bolshevist regime; and, for eleven years, Soviet school children have been studying maps on which Bessarabia appears as part of Russia labeled: "Under temporary Rumanian military occupation...
...Europe is producing some artistic films, but they are greatly outweighed by the number of good American films. Russian films are extremely interesting because they are done in a new, modernistic spirit; but there is too much "esprit de propagande politique" in them. In Italy educational films are put out under the authority of the government by the Institute National Luce. Mussolini is very much in favor of films done in a realistic manner and sees the cinema as an effective means of international "rapprochement...
Sculptor Davidson produced three models before he was satisfied. The first was the reposeful family La Follette. The second was a composite of qualities. The final version was the militant figure of the Senate chamber. It was the intimacy of the Russian journey which allowed the sculptor to rely so much on memory. But once his memory failed. The Senator's alert, responsive hands were elusive. Sculptor Davidson was baffled. Then to the Paris studio came the Senator's brilliant younger son, Philip La Follette, lecturer on law at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 22). It is in this...
...Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky-products all of the first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...