Word: semyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chekhov is ideal material for a repertory group because so many of the smaller parts can prove to be gems when given the attention of first-class actors. In the present production, Peter Temple as the schoolmaster, Semyon, Donald Stevens as Sorin, and Jeanne Tufts as Polina are cases in point. Bryant Haliday as Konstantin, shows much improvement over his past tendency toward staginess and oratory and gives his best performance to date. Jan Farrand is ill-cast as the faded actress, Madame Arkadina. Despite all the trickery of the theater, Miss Farrand cannot look faded. And as the physical...
...Semyon Lavochkin is Yakovlev's chief rival in the fighter field. A Jewish teacher's son, he is tough, unsmiling. His new plywood fighter, the Reds say, has a faster takeoff, greater punch, a remarkably easy control. The name-handle, LAGG, is compounded of LA for Lavochkin, GG for his aides, Gorbunov & Gudkov...
Though others fail the war can still be won. Had he failed the war could not be won. I nominate Marshal Semyon Timoshenko for Man of the Year...
LONDON--Marshall Semyon Timoshenko's Red Army of the Ukraine was reported unofficially tonight to have recaptured Novomoskovsk, which would represent a gain more than 50 miles...
British observers believed that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko was about to attempt to recapture the great industrial city of Kharkov from the Germans. The left bank of the lower Don and the Donets Basin was reported ablaze with Russian artillery fire...