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...Brattle Theatre celebrated its tenth anniversary as a motion picture theatre yesterday with an invitational showing of "The Lady with the Dog," a new Russian film based on a story by Anton Chekhov. Regular showings of the film begin today...
Noisy Interruption. There were even more serious turbulences in Bulgaria. The country's Red boss Todor Zhivkov was back from his trip to Moscow scarcely 24 hours when he told the opening session of a party congress in Sofia that Premier Anton Yugov, ex-Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face...
...Lady with the Dog is a Russian movie that tells a story by Anton Chekhov and tells it simply and clearly from start to finish...
...small and vulnerably human. In an era where others were con cerned with the conflict of good v. evil, Anton Chekhov saw mainly the conflict of simplicity v. pretension, and found the consequences depressing. In his writing, he refused to pass explicit judgment, and observing life, he found no meaning but only a mystery. In flamboyant 19th century Russia, choked with morality tales, nourished on progressive theories of history, lashed with messianic messages, Chekhov, who lived from 1860 to 1904, was ahead of his literary time, a lonely, gentle, restrained man who remains an ambiguous figure even in this exhaustive...
...grocery business collapsed, and with it his father's morale. The family moved into a small basement apartment in Moscow. Young Anton, at 19, began writing stories for cheap magazines to put himself through medical school and support the family. At one time or another, mother, father, a sister, an aunt and four brothers all lived in the apartment. The young Chekhov's output was so great that in a few years he was able to buy a small country estate at Melikhovo, where he planted a cherry orchard and began, as he put it, to "squeeze...