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...Vladimir Ivashov), who becomes a hero almost by accident, and is given leave to visit his mother. On his way home on the chaotic Russian railroads he helps an amputee who is ashamed to return to his wife, delivers some soap to another soldier's unfaithful wife, and meets Shura (Shanna Prokhorenko), a girl who stows away in the beggage car he is riding in. Shura tells him that she already has a sweetheart, and after their adventures together confesses that this was a lie. They part, and Alyosha realizes too late that he loves her. Further delayed...
...Ivashov plays the role gently, with humor (shrewdly bribing an officiously corrupt train guard, telling white lies to the father of the soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...
Your Press editor refers to Harry F. Reutlinger of the Chicago American as a ''middle-sized (5 ft. 6 in.) man," while your Music editor says that Pianist Shura Cherkassky is "short...
...piano, short (5 ft. 6 in.), 49-year-old Shura Cherkassky looked a little like a pouncing falcon. Perched on the edge of his stool, his face near the keys, he struck thunderous volleys of sound without clouting the keys or becoming percussive and harsh. Unhampered by a span* of only ten keys, he executed impressively agile runs, showed off subtly colored nuances without ever sagging into sentimentality. Headlined Der Tagesspiegel: "A TRIUMPH OF VIRTUOSITY...
Despite such European praise, Cherkassky has not played in the U.S. in twelve years, and few U.S. concertgoers can even recall his early U.S. career. Son of an Odessa dentist, Shura emigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was eleven, made his concert debut in Baltimore when he was twelve, but never really succeeded on the concert circuit. At war's end, just as a whole new generation of pianists was growing up, Cherkassky headed for Europe, where he now gives about 80 concerts per season, is booked as long as five years in advance. All during...