Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gave Russian Production...
...year ago Nicola Evreiner's "Mr. Paelete" was produced. The Theatre Guild played it under the title of "The Chief Thing." Typically Russian, but radical and futuristic even for Russia, this play "for some a comedy, for others a drama," provoked the widest discussion. It was one of the three Dramatic Club productions to be taken over by New York managers and staged on Broadway within two seasons...
...play offered at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre, constitutes a sufficient justification for that pioneer enterprise. For The Three Sisters is a great drama that could not possibly succeed in a Broadway house. It tells of the dry rot creeping upon a class of Russian society which, for years, has been privileged to do nothing- the petty military, the country landlord. Always the victims struggle to writhe free of the suffocating blankets of their own inertia-in this case, three sisters. They will go to Moscow, where there is life. They will go. But they never...
...Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge of cynicism. At the same time, he noted the fact that she was indefatigable; that she sewed up baseballs for the neighborhood urchins; kept Harvard boys out of scrapes; slaved for one and all in kitchen, study, school...
SKAZKI-Ida Zeitlin-Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen-Doran ($5). The title of this book sounds not at all like a sneeze when you know how to pronounce it, and means "wonder-tale" or "folk-story" in Russian. The characters are chiefly ancient Russian royalty, tsars and tsarinas, involved in marvelous episodes with their good, bad and mysterious subjects...