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...Soviet Russian, the British fiance is the cad. He is removed by the Bolshevik in a tussle over a hatchet. The problem is then posed as to whether the girl could live happily with her Russian in his own striving milieu, minus Claridge's and cabriolets. The stolid Slav does not think so, plods off alone. These platitudinous doings are described as "the first play to come out of Soviet Russia." Actor Leonid Snegov, onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, gave an occasionally trenchant air to the piece. The play lasted six days...
With the passing years the Slavs solidified in little communistic groups. Perhaps they were not naturally belligerent (not one of Mucha's paintings commemorates a deed of battle), but onslaughts of domineering Goths, the scorbutic spread of Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated. Westward they journeyed to Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity...
...Epic of Slavic History is at present on exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital, where a permanent gallery for it will soon be built. It is fitting that on the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakian independence the country should possess such a Slavic shrine, a goal for pilgrims. Slavs have inspired the shrine, a Slav has peopled it with the painted legion of his forbears, Slavs will visit it with sympathy. But the scheme was fostered by an American, financed with U. S. money. The entrepreneur is grey-haired, goateed Charles Richard Crane, supposedly of Manhattan, in reality most traveled of Americans...
...said a massive Slav, "Petlura was not antiSemitic. He was a humanitarian?a friend of the Jews...
...squat Slav, called by the prosecution, who described himself as an "historian, a man of letters and at present an assistant to a stone- mason," gave evidence in Petlura's philo-Semiticism, denying with a grief-contorted face that the "General" had ever killed Jews or caused them to be massacred...