Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diploma from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg often turned to the House of Liechtenstein for their brides. Austrian Kaiser Franz Josef once named Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Paul, who abdicated last week, as Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Imperial Russian court. The art collection of hoary Prince Franz Paul is one of Europe's finest...
Little of that glow shines through the present production. Critic Stark Young's new acting version is natural and charming, but last week's performance showed only a series of moods-that time-honored way of passing the buck about the dark, difficult Russian soul. Actor Lunt performed admirably as Trigorin, Actress Fontanne badly as Irina. She made the Russian woman a ham actress in a farce, displayed a rather alarming affinity for the role...
Therefore, of the $9,849,697 which Mr. Fosdick last year distributed for the Rockefeller Foundation, no Italian, Japanese or Russian institution received a cent. In Germany the only beneficiary was the University of Freiburg, which received $19,600. But English institutions received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm...
Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
...cello is the big, booming baritone of the violin family, and it takes a young and husky man to play it. From 17th-century Italian Domenico Gabrielli to 20th-century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular...