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...arrangement of guaranteed minimum wages and devotion of a small part of each member's product to common needs, such as farm equipment. Cooperative societies, however, both for marketing the district's product and for securing credit, are universally found throughout the provinces of Russia. The peasant whom Tolstoy believed he understood so well, has rejected Tolstoyan collectivism, but one good result of the feverish uproar of the last six years endures the closer cooperation of the peasant-farmers through local cooperative societies...
That they were in need of chaperonage seems apparent from their immediate affiliation in this country with Count Ilyia Tolstoy, Prince Felix Yusupov and other recognized Tsarists. They also ignored their obligation to the Russian Red Cross...
There was some fear in Russia, whose dramatists are equal to any in the world, that the Soviet authorities in Moscow would suppress public performances of Alexis Tolstoy's play The Golden Book of Love, a light comedy which features Catherine the Great. It was felt that the Empress, being at the head of a Tsarist State, would be too much for the Bolsheviki...
...first play of the four to be given in Boston, the Moscow Art Theatre, the most famous repertory theatre in the world, chose the rambling, pseudochronicle history play of Alexei Tolstoy, "Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch", as has been its custom in New York and Chicago. The play affords manifold opportunities for spectacle and ensemble work, manifold chances for actors and director. These were more than taken advantage of by players and producers. A more beautifully grouped, paused, acted, and costumed production Boston has seldom seen. This much is plain in spite of the difficulties of a foreign tongue. There are those...
...fifth act. And mention must be made of the costumes. Rarely has a play been set with the beauty and display of brilliance that one sees here. In fact, if the Moscow players can extract so much from a play of the type of Tolstoy's "Tsar Fyodor", and can hold an audience enthralled that does not understand the language, one looks forward eagerly to their playing of "The Lower Depths", "The Three Sisters", and "The Cherry Orchard...