Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought, however, that his advent to power has come too late, and that there is little that he can do to dispel chaotic conditions in Germany. A rich man and an industrialist, Herr Stresemann was reputed to be much under the thumb of Herr Hugo Stinnes, industrial Tsar. Lately, however, Herr Stresemann has shown himself to be energetic in trying to break the political power of Herr Stinnes...
...author has placed in juxtaposition the peace loving efforts of the Entente with the warlike aims of Germany. He pays remarkable tribute to the patience and courage of the Tsar and King Edward VII. While the leaders in the Entente Cordiale were doing all they could to further the cause of peace, the villains of the piece were laying their nefarious plans. He tells of the surreptitious beginnings of the German war policy and leads up by stages to the open manifestations of that dread disease?Francophobia. Finally through a maze of diplomatic material M. Viviani, with true legal logic...
Georgia claims that she first burst into authentic history when she was conquered by Alexander the Great. After the death of the great Greek general, Georgia was ruled successively by four dynasties until 1801. The country was then annexed by Tsar Alexander I., and until 1917 formed an integral part of the Russian Empire. When the Bolshevik coup d'état took place in the same year, the Georgians, together with the Tartars and Armenians, became known under the title of the Transcaucasian Republic. Subsequently, however, Georgia was forced to form a separate State...
...place comes the production and the acting. The company changes from performance to performance. The cast seen on Tuesday afternoon was not the cast seen on Monday night. Katchaloff had replaced Moskvin as the Tsar, Stanislavsky was cost as Shouisky in the place of Luzhsky, Yershoff was playing Boris instead of Vishnevsky, and Madame Pashennaya played the Tsarina in the place of Madame Tchekhova. The performance at the Tuesday matince was no doubt not quite as interesting as the one on the opening night, though the Shouisky of Stanislavsky was outstanding, as was the Boris of Yershoff. Disappointment came...
...never feels that here one definite grouping is over and here the next one beings. There is an unrivalled flow, and contiuuity, beauty and rhythm in the stage direction. Particularly memorable were the kneeling figures of the delegates from Moscow at the end of the second act, and the Tsar and Tsarina, with the beggars at one side, at the end of the 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...