Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DOSTOEVSKY opens up new worlds: the regions he explores were previously unknown to literature. And he creates Upheaval." With these words Mr. Julius Meief-Graefe commences the latest biography of one of the great trilogy of Russian writers, perhaps even, if one may attempt to set foot upon the odious road of comparisons, the greatest of the group which put a new literature before the world: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. Tolstoy and Turgenev painted upon what might be called a variation of the Western canvas, with new colors; Dostoevsky created a new easel and a new technique. It is the difference...
Matchmaker Kreuger speaks fluently Swedish, English, French, German. He has more than a smattering of Russian and Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly...
...Patriot (Emil Jannings)- Russian count does right and wrong for his country...
...Tempest" as his way of showing the movies that he can act. This picture repeats in a general way the tactics of "Beau Brummel". It lets John (we always called him John at school) spend the first half of the picture as a smooth lad, a lieutenant in the Russian army, and the second half as a shaggy, sunk-eyed 'Bolshevist...
...plays both phases of the role in capital fashion, and as such movies go, "Tempest" is far from poor. Camilla Horn does a Russian princess and the unique Louis Wolheim is again on hand to demonstrate where plastic surgery might have been applied...