Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Kyra Goritzina and her husband, Sergei, are White emigres from Russia, where they "lost nearly all that is dear to anyone-country, home, family, wealth and social standing." Soon as they arrived in the U. S., in 1923, Sergei was offered a $250-a-week job as an actor, in Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins...
Kyra Goritzina quotes Thackeray: "Lucky is the man whose servant speaks well of him." In Service Entrance she speaks well of only two of the nine households in which she and Sergei worked. Mr. Pettyjohn (she names no real names), a socialite banker, was agreeable despite the fact that he tested his servants by scattering cigar ashes in out-of-the-way spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest...
...Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 3 sides). At his best as a deft impressionist, U. S. Composer Copland here records sultry musical impressions of Mexico. Koussevitzky's Bostonians play them like summer lightning...
Alexander Nevslcy (Mosfilm Studios) puts back into circulation famed Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein, after six unproductive years that followed his ill-starred trip to Hollywood in 1930-32. All Russian pictures are advertisements for the U.S.S.R. This one is no exception, but it shows, not the handiness of modern peasants with mowing machines, but the first faint stirrings of Russian social consciousness, circa 1242 A.D. Fortunately, for U. S. audiences, even this patriotic ferment occupies Director Eisenstein's attention only for a few minutes at the beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities...
This sequence, rather than the concluding victory celebration, which can be construed as a warning to Hitler, probably caused Joseph Stalin to make his debut as a movie critic at the Moscow premiere of Alexander Nevsky last year. Dictator Stalin hit Eisenstein on the back, roared, "Sergei, you are a true Bolshevik...