Word: tchekhov
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...become molded into an artistic unit. There is no protrusion of a "star" in their performance; each is subordinated to the whole effect. Nor is the play itself buried in the interpretation. Theatricalism is not allowed to interfere between the audience and the genius of such Russian dramatists as Tchekhov and Gorky...
...urged on by government efforts, Soviet writers may soon have ready a whole new literature. This new culture is being built even before the old is entirely destroyed, so that at least the memory of the old may be compared with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...
...Dramatic Club has chosen for its twenty-second production, the "Sea Gull", a four act tragedy by the noted Russian dramatist Tchekhov. Last Year "Cherry Orchard", a play by the same author, was presented in New York, and it attained considerable success there. With its four elaborate settings and typically Russian atmosphere, the "Sea Gull" promises to prove fully as successful as was "Cherry Orchard...
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