Word: vitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marie Scheikévitch is the daughter of a wealty Russian art collectorwho settled in Paris nea the end of the 19th Century. Time Past begins with a memory of the great catastrophe at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, when thousands of the common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant...
Marie Scheikévitch does not touch on the mysteries of his personality, hbut the individual she portrays, unlink the one who figures in most reminiscences of Proust, might conceivably have been written Remembrance of Things Past...
...first of eight concerts to be given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given in Sanders Theatre, Thursday evening, October 13. Serge Alexandro-vitch Koussevitzky will conduct the concerts as usual. A limited number of twenty-five cent seats will be made available for students in the University. The seats are situated directly above the stage...
...that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina was a major factor in the House of Romanov's fall. There were those last week who sympathized with ex-King Alfonso in his terrible decision...