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Greatest impersonation of the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin was the fear-racked 17th-Century Tsar in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir...
...Prompted by a letter to Tsar Will Hays from U. S. Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith, Producer Sam Goldwyn announced that he had canceled plans to make Thirteen Go Flying, based on last January's crash of the British transport plane, Cavalier...
...Tyrant, Satrap, Pharaoh, Khan, Caesar, Emperor, Tsar and Kaiser have left their sulphurous trail across the pages of history. Today in Europe they have new names...
...between their Russian, German and Austrian masters, they would have undoubtedly chosen the Austrians. In Polish Austria, Poles had considerable autonomy. Poles were allowed to enter the Austrian Civil Service, had Polish schools and law courts. Under German rule few Poles held public jobs and under the Tsar many a Polish patriot (like Pilsudski) spent long, hard winters in Siberian exile...
...further by having them distributed in Italy not by their producers' agents but by a Government-financed monopoly. Last week it became apparent that the new scheme was another flop. Having tried it for a month, U. S. producers found the terms of the monopoly prohibitive, announced through Tsar Will Hays that they had entirely ceased distributing their pictures in Italy...