Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Restaurant Battle. Students at Belgrade, Jugoslav Capital, were stirred to such fury by the possibly erroneous reports from Zara that they stormed the Restaurant of the Russian Tsar at Belgrade, where several members of the Cabinet were known to be dining. "TRAITORS! COWARDS!" roared the students, and soon began to hurl bricks through the windows of the restaurant, to emphasize their contention that the Cabinet ought not to submit the Treaties of Nettuno for ratifications by the Skupshtina (Parliament...
...divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Friedrich Wilhelm August Stock. Rhenish composer, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin, nor those who viewed his efforts. The peasant and his troubles were forgotten when the chance came to show flashes of Lebedew's stock exchange interspersed with glimpses of soldiers...
...Pizzicati c. Intermezzo of Valse leute d. Cortege de Bacchus Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner Funeral Music of Stegfried from "The Dusk of the Gods" Wagner Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner Suite from "Carmen" Wagner a. Intermezzo b. The Dragoons of Alcala c. Prelude to Act 1 Russian Lullaby Berlin March, "Lorraine" Ganne
Professor Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared...