Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offered, "say, was that Russian the brother was talking?" He was really interested...
...Policy Association, will speak on "China's Special Tariff Conference"; 1 o'clock Round Table luncheon discussion; 2 o'clock, W. B. Thompson, of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, will speak on "Overpopulation in the Oriend"; 3 o'clock, E. F. Wise, economic advisor to Controscyus, Russian Producers' Cooperatives, will speak on "Russia's Place in World Politics"; 8 o'clock, G. W. Wilson, Professor of International Law at the University will speak on "Problems of the Pacific" and Rear Admiral William V. Pratt, United States Navy, will speak immediately following on the same topic...
...must be recalled, however, that the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio came into being during the Russian Revolution; its first performance was given on May 16, 1920, after a prolonged and extensive period of experimentation. Thus the organization now assembled at the Al Jolson Theatre, Manhattan, is perhaps the youngest of the great theatrical and musical troupes of the world. Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations. The production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac...
Everyone knows Tolstoy's story of country-bred Catering's betrayal by swaggering Prince Dimitri, how she fell to the gloomy, filthy Russian depths, how Dimitri found her in a Petrograd prison, how she was redeemed. Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes. Therein, to music that was "strong, eloquently melodious, entirely southern despite the artful use of Slavic folk themes to create and sustain Russian atmosphere," Miss Garden found as good a part...
Professor Morison has been a close student of both American and European politics and history. He was attached to the Russian division of the American Peace Commission at Paris in 1919, and was later the American delegate on that commission. He is the author of several well-known historical and biographical works on the Balkans, Massachusetts, and the American Revolution. Among these are, "The Life of Harrison Gray Otis," "History of the Constitution of Massachusetts". "The Eastern Baltie in New Europe", "Maritime History of Massachusetts", "Prologue to American History," and "Sources and Documents on the American Revolution...