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...Smallens, George King Raudenbush. The first week of the eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome. Ambitiously the later repertoire included a telescoped Ring, a possible Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, ballets by Mikhail Mordkin's troupe and by the Littlefield troupe, now performing in Europe (TIME...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...
...Marshal Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, until his demotion last month Vice Commissar for Defense, one of the greatest tacticians of the Red Army...
...variation on this disinfecting theme last week was the suicide of mat-bearded Jan Gamarnik, Vice-Commissar for Defense. His death came month after the demotion of Defense Vice-Commissar Mikhail Nikolaivich Tukhachevsky (TIME, May 31). Gamarnik, 43, had been a member of the Communist Party since 1916. After the civil war he became head of all political work in the Red Army, was given the special title of "Military Commissar of the First Rank" when, in 1935, five generals were raised to the newly created rank of Marshal. After his death it was officially revealed that he was "connected...
...Mikhail Mordkin & his ballet gave a version of the Sleeping Beauty last December at Waterbury, Conn., but without an orchestra...