Word: samovar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nancy Walker is one of these three, a futile organizer of the proletariat known aptly enough as Yetta Samovar, and she all but purloins the production, squeezing the most from both dialogue and a handful of witty ditties. All the rest of the Cast, including comedians Red Button and Philip Coolidge, are both capable and in good voice; the setting and costumes are pleasing to the eye; the chorus is young and pretty; the dancing is quite nice. Taken altogether. "Barefoot Boy" is of no world-shaking significance, but is attractive enough fare to entertain throngs of New Yorkers...
...wisely nor performed too well. Playing Chekhov in another language must always discolor him a little; and to offer U.S. audiences a perceptibly British version of Chekhov is to discolor him further. Moreover, the reserved and chin-up British are not entirely at home with the soul and the samovar...
...painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such as a waisthigh, samovar-like receptacle of tarnished silverplate sporting an impudent spiggot. There were even sales tickets on the coiled hempen ropes down which no one had ever had to make a fire escape...
...still wanted to meet the army's request to teach Russian subjects to uniformed students. And that was a tough problem. According to President Edmund Ezra Day, it could not find an informed lecturer who was neither rabidly pro-nor anti-Soviet. The university is bewildered by the samovar tempest its choices created...