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Messrs. Smith and Murphy are characters in Konstantin Simonov's new play about the U.S., The Russian Question, which keeps up this kind of dialogue for three acts. As the play opened last week at Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater amid critical huzzahs, the big news was that the Soviet Government had chosen it as a deliberate device to form Russia's views...
...myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired. On top of that, his pretty wife (played by Valentina Serova, Playwright Simonov's wife) prepares to leave him in a climactic scene (see cut) and he is dispossessed. But in a concluding soliloquy, Smith reassures the audience-he will not hang himself. His honesty unsullied, he will start life all over again, fighting for a better America. Whether...
Liquor in the Jukebox. Konstantin ("a playwright must be a politician") Simonov made his source studies when he toured the U.S. last year under the auspices of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded...
...Whole World Over (adapted from the Russian of Konstantine Simonov by Thelma Schnee; produced by Walter Fried & Paul F. Moss) is a Soviet comedy without a teaspoonful of Soviet propaganda. Indeed, even in the way of plot it would be hard to find anything less revolutionary. Laid in Moscow, the play deals with housing shortages, postwar readjustments and, above all, love-as they exist the whole world over...
Page One treatment for attending a champagne-&-blini party (for visiting Russian literary lion Konstantin Simonov) aboard a Soviet tanker off the California coast. Before the week was out, California Senator Jack B. Tenney had promised "a full-dress investigation"-"to learn whether there is a collaboration with potential enemies of our country...