Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This year the ambitions of the club are even higher. They have now in rehearsal 'Mr. Paraclete', translated from the Russian of Nikolai Evreinov specifically for their purpose. What they will make out of it remains to be seen. But the conditions that will permit a play to be chosen purely apart from commercial considerations, and the conviction that it is the superior order of creative art which should command the attention of the Dramatic Club, surely do not show that the drama in Harvard is in quite so lamentable a state of disrepute as it might conceivably...
...Budapest, Prince Galitzin, onetime member of the State Council of Russia, has just published his memoirs of the Russian revolution. He asserts that "the Tsar Nicholas and certain members of his immediate family are still alive" and are dwelling in "intense seclusion" at "a place which must naturally remain nameless...
...last drying flakes of his tour in favor of Mineralava Beauty Clay have disappeared, and he is once more a foremost favorite of the screen. This latest picture is among his best. It was adapted from the novel of Pushkin, and treats of a Russian youth who (figuratively) thumbed his nose at the Tsarina and considerably displeased the royal household. He becomes a Cossack and makes love, without too much exaggeration, to Vilma Banky...
...anxiously sought him at the Hotel Majestic, that he took what is for him an unprecedentedly firm stand. His "protest" is not expected to count for much against the "bayonets" of Reza Khan. The British Government has already given "provisional recognition" to the new "provisional government" of Persia. The Russian Government, which has been freely rumored to be behind Reza Khan, recognized the new regime by telegraph almost before it was announced...
...champion of the world, arrived at Moscow. It was reported that (he Soviet Government had enticed him thither with much spot cash gold. There came also Dr. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) former world champion; Frank J. Marshall, U. S. Champion, and E. D. Bogoljubow (Ukrainia). They were met by 30 Russian chess players. After entertainments worthy of Lucullus, all sat down to play off the first international chess match to be held in Russia since the fall of Tsardom...