Word: tchekov
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Engaged. Actress Ruth Gordon, 46, just before the Washington opening of Tchekov's Three Sisters, in which she played the sister-in-law; and Private Garson Kanin, 30, ex-boy-wonder cinedirector; in Washington...
...unlikely to affect, the trend of play-writing. There is a place for both the vers libre and the mechanical playwrights. Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" is as moving a play as any by Saroyan, whether or not we are conscious of her careful plot manipulation. Tchekov realized that form or the lack of form is not everything when he has Treplev, in the last act of "The Sea-Gull," say, "I come more and more to the conviction that it is not a question of new and old forms, but that what matters is that...
When Britons, who like to spend especially cheerless afternoons by the fire reading Tchekov, Turgenev, or Dostoevsky, want to describe a person whose deep gloom is relieved only by occasional starts of dark suspicion, they say: "Frightfully Russian." Frightfully Russian were Russians last week. Citizens heard almost no official announcements about the campaign in Finland-except that Russia's defensive warfare against aggressive Finland had reached points 90 miles inside Finland's borders. But in the streets unhappy Russians heard ugly rumors...
...Simmons owes us another book, which must carry on the story of Anglo-Russian relations from 1840 to the end of the third decade of the XXth century. It is also stipulated in the book that Dr. Simmons must show, among other things, the extent to which Tchekov influenced, for better and for worse, the English short story as written, for instance, by the late Katherine Mansfield. We have no doubt, with the present work as our criterion, that Dr. Simmons will discharge his duty commendably...
...Cherry Orchard"--New Amsterdam Theatre, 42nd Street, W.--Alla Nazimova in Tchekov's most popular play. Like all of Miss Gallionne's repertory, "Cherry Orchard" is excellent and well-acted. Alternates with "Alice in Wonderland" done in the best Tenniel fashion with elaborate hares, hatters, and cats. "Cherry Orchard" plays Monday through Wednesday, and "Alice," that is the last word, the remainder of the week...