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...fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies on a hard bench in the railway station at Astapovo...
...other words, Fedya is a great character, a coiled complex of frailty and nobility, such as his creator Tolstoy and that other great Russian, Dostoievsky, were particularly apt to conceive. As acted by Jacob Ben-Ami and a large company of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre (including a witty bit by the directress herself), most of the values of this celebrated tragedy are apparent. Egon Brecher's depiction of Alexandrov, an artistic hobo with delusions of grandeur, is an uproarious triumph if you can overlook its tragic perspectives...
...obviously below the cost of manufacture. Fascist authorities scented propaganda. Last week, armed with orders from the Italian Department of the Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
...When America falls from the fiftysixth story of the Woolworth Building, there will be a bad crash," declared Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the famous Russian philosopher, now lecturing in this country...
Count Leo Tolstoy, dying, bequeathed the rights of all his stories to mankind. Last fortnight two groups of his legatees-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. on the one hand, Columbia Pictures Corp. on the other-began a race to see which would be first to release the Tolstoy story, Redemption...