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...scene is laid in a Russian provincial village. Anna Petrovna, a General's widow, who is frightfully in debt to Jew moneylenders and ought to be saving every kopek, is giving a party, with all the fixings -Chinese lanterns in the garden, music, fireworks, plenty of drink. All the neighbors are there, among them Schoolteacher Platonov, intelligent, charming, young, popular: the perfect lady-killer, but with too much Hamlet in his makeup. His wife adores him; they have a little son. Other women adore him too: his hostess, the General's widow, her daughter-in-law, Sofya, just...
...with Grekova, whom he humiliates by kissing soundly and then throwing on a table. When he gets home in the small hours, his adoring wife is waiting up for him, but he will not go to bed; he sits outside and indulges in remorse for his disgraceful conduct. Anna Petrovna comes looking for him; Sofya sends him a letter. The kind-hearted fellow promises to make Anna his mistress, then promises Sofya he will run away with her. Ensuing complications grow too much for him: his wife leaves him, he takes to drink in earnest, threatens to shoot himself. Sofya...
...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...
...Blandish) were admirable, does not use ponderous syllables to transmit his new solemnity. His idiom is rapid, keen, unfailingly dramatic. For Alfred Lunt he has provided another personal success with perhaps the most picaresque role of his career. For the Theatre Guild, smarting from the rebuffs given Karl and Anna and The Game of Love and Death, he has made the season happier...
Last week a third fiasco occurred. A newly organized Boston Grand Opera Company (in whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied their makeup, practiced their trills. A thousand patrons arrived. But the Opera House doors remained closed. The performance was canceled, money refunded. Reason: a $15,000 deficit...