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When Sir Walter arrived in Moscow last week the papers called him "Tovarish." Theatergoers stood up to cheer when they saw Trade Union Chief Shvernik steer him into a box to watch a performance of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina...
Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser...
Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...
Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, 31-year-old Yankee pitcher, went to work in General Electric's war plant in Lynn, Mass. To Cornell University, to teach Russian, went Marie Tolstoy, 34-year-old granddaughter of the famed Russian novelist...
News that Tolstoy's War and Peace was to be filmed drew cries of anxious alarm from such Britons as H. G. Wells, Compton Mackenzie, Eric Linklater, and produced in the London Times a letter: "With dismay we have heard that it is to be made into a cinematograph film. . . We would ask what degree of supervision, and by whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think...