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FIFTY YEARS HENCE, SAYS THE COMMUNIST
private traders. He throws over and end on a note of apostrophe to
which the working girl to whom he is the audience,
Pretsopkiri betrothed, and she commits suicide suddenly spies and halls as his own in despair. Pretsepkin adds to his brothers. enormities by marrying a private "Klop" reflects the very general trader's daughter, and he celebrates | tendency of Soviet Russians to NEW RUSSIAN PLAY
his nuptials with an uproarious place almost mystical faith in the What will be the world for fifty purty where everyone becomes very supposedly invincible and unlimited hence ? Vsevolod Meier- drunk. In the end, as a result of transforming powers of science Whether it makes hold, expressionistic and feonoclastic an accident, a conflagration breaks and invention. producer, and Vladimir Mayakov-out reducing the house and all its life In 1927 a prospect of unmixed sky, futurist post, have combined occupants, except Pretsepkin him-pleasure is perhaps debatable. One forces to answer this question in self, who is somehow preserved in gets the impression that in the the play "Klop," or "Insect," which congealed form, to asties. is probably the most discussed and inost striking feature of the second
years
Restored to Life The play then takes a leap of fifty years into the future. Pretsep kin's frozen body has been dia- covered in the course of some archaeological researches, and labour and scientific organisations in Russia and other countries de- bate through powerful loud- speakers whether he should be brought to life, a process which science has made possible, The vote is favourable, and Pretsepkin revives in a world which proves cruelly strange and alien.
The people of 1979, as depicted in-Meierhold's fantasy, do not drink, or smoke, or fall in love, or dance to the strains of jazz music. Continuity with the Russian. past is not altogether broken, however, because they do make speeches and arrange meetings or a large scale, although they have. realised one hitherto vain aspiration of Russian hygienic faddista and
Utopia of Meierhold and Mayakov- sky science has mastered man st least as much as man has mastered science. One unconverted specta- tor was heard to comment as he left the theatre: "This future life is too much like a term in a model hospital ward.".
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plase, and altho.)
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131
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23 24
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HORIZONTAL
1-Network bat
Prefix. Against
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18-Likewise
14-Low
RIZONTAL (Cont)
|40-Legislative
presiding officer
48-Pronoun
60-Loquacity
52-Prosa epics
15-Rowing implement 169-1ll-bred person
18-Bell
17-Half a score
13-Central point
20-Obstruction
21-8carlet 22-Festored 24-Prefix By 24-Gouches 27-Time period 28-Fen 34-Doggy 35-Ascend
36-Vision
37-One who governa
temporarily
30-Cut up and strip
blubber from whale
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42-Prophet
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54-Precious atone
58-Decay
57-Malden 58-Challenge to combat 59-Compass point
(abbr) 60-General's assistant 61-3cizba
VERTICAL 1-Tear sundor 2-Sings softly
3-Charlatan
4-Turbulent
5-Children's game
7-Want
33 34
VERTICAL (Cont.)
18-Hobbles {19-Observes {21-Comments
22-Takes II
23-Loiterer 25-Makers of rhymes 26-Foundationa 28-More unusual 80-Western State
(abbe.)
31-Dress 33-Male employes 134-Dance
38-Covers
39-Gratuities
41-That which erodea 42-Flat Hoh of ray
family (pl.)
44-Eager
45-Parent
47-Ago (poet.) 48-Difficult
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S1-Captare
8-Brat
11-Soft. lumpy mixture (53-102
12-Break Buddenly 65-Meadow
113-Man-eating monster 157-Motor fuel
The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in te-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
THE “TALKIES"
GAINING NEW AND NOTABLE
RECRUITS
McCORMACK & MARY PICKFORD
New York, April 4. The latest notable recruits to the talking-pictures are Miss Mary Pickford (emphatically), and the famous tenor, Count John Mc- Cormack, (probably).
Count McCormack revealed on his arrival in New York that he is con- sidering a proposal to appear in "sound films."
Miss Mary Pickford, who has just completed her firal talking picture,
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bibition in the Colonies, Pro- tectorates, and mandated territories, with special reference to the de
Colleen Moore.
half of the Moscow
season.
theatrical
Meierhold, who at one time was regarded as the pioneer and fore- most authority in the field of pro- letarian drama, fell under a certain shadow of social disfavour when his fancy turned from pieces of re- volutionary propaganda and satire to eccentric re-vamping of some of the Russian classics. Last autumn an unsympathetic head of the Arts Department of the Commissariat for Education, proposed to close his theatre, because of its mounting deficit. Meierhold, who as then in France, rushed back to Moscow, rallied his friends, saved his theatre, and, with "Klop," has done much to re-establish his prestige and popularity.
declares: “I will never make an- sirability of developing the use of
other allent picture.
I believe the the cinema as an instrument of
future of the screen lies talking films."
She was telegraphed to this effect
to the New York office of the United
Artists' Corporation.
A. B.U.P. message from Berlin -
education and encouraging the ex-
hibition of British films.
Captain W. Brass, M.P., is chair-
man of the committee.
Russian Films for Britaite
It was announced last night that
states that the European alliance British Instructional Films, Ltd., of sound-film companies has resulted have secured an agreement with in the way being cleared for the the Soviet Government, by which
, Germany.
presentation of talking films in the company secures the right to distribute in this country the whole output of the Russian film industry. Mr. A. E. Bundy, chairman of the
Encouraging British Films The Colonial Secretary has ap pointed a special committee to company, said last night: "In about examine the arrangements existing six months' time we should be re- for the supply and censorship of leasing Russian films, possibly at cinematograph films for public ex the rate of one a month."
Certainly in
his partnership with Mayakovsky his share has been the
Опе more efective. Janus-faced critic referred to "Klop" as "à most brilliant pro- duction with most senseless con. teats"; and the text of the play would scarcely bear reading, al though the vivid, lively presentation holds the spectator's interest con- sistently throughout.
John Barrymore.
abolished hand-shaking... Each action of Pratsepkin is viewed as the strange behaviour of an un- known animal from another planet by these superior beings of 1979, who have to refer to dictionaries zo recall the meaning of such words
They show
A Moral Tale About half the action takes place In Moscow in 1929, the other half in 1979. In the first part two ne overcrowding, unemployment, episodes stand out by virtue of the suicide, and prisons. vigour and vitality of the mass equal interest in the "klop," which acting: Moscow street scane, is resurrected along with Pretsep- with kiosks, shop windows, raucous kin, an unpleasant sort of insect voiced petty traders, and a hilarious which is all too common in Russia
strongly suggests now, but which has presumably be party, which some of the more inebriated pass- come extinct after Afty years of ages in the "Pickwick Papers." mechanised progress. Through these scenes runs a tenuous thread of plot, with strongly moralistic tinge,
The burly
a
5.
Mystical Faith in Science Finally Pretsepkin is-exhibited in
a cage and made the subject of a worker, scientific lecture. young
The playwright Pretsepkin, is corrupted through and producer then borrow a device evil associations with a family of from Gogol's "Inspector-General,”
UN
Phyllis Haver, famous screen star, and her fiance, Billy Sea- man, prominent New York business man, gave a luncheon to friends on board the 8.8. "Berengaria" to celebrate the procuring of their marriage licence, after which they will be married and immediately start on a honeymoon voyage to Europe aboard the Cunarder.
Wallace Beery is reported to have signed a contract for a mere $2,600 (gold) a week.
MADAME SHINE
ACTED WITH THE “DIVINE" SARAH
Mme. Shine, a colleague. of the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt and en outstanding figure of the East End, has died at 86. ·
Mme. Shine's son said that she had attended a college in Moorfields at the same time as Sarah Bern- hardt and had acted with that actress in many plays when she was young.
"She also played," he added, "at the Pavilon, Whitechapel; Great Central Hall, Bishopsgate; Surrey Theatre, Blackfriars, and many others, in English and Irish dramas.- Only a month previous she gave a recitation at a wedding reception, and even at 86 she retained much of her former powers.
"She was connected with the foundation of many working men's clubs..
Mr. B. Messias, who le 80, recall- ed how he had assisted in the
the club foundation of
in the Zetland Hall,
"Its title was in Dutch," he said, "and may
be translated as 'The This news travelled quickly Good Intent Choral Society.' We through the East End of London in used to perform two different plays mail week. For more than 60 years) a week, on Saturday and Sunday her name has been a housebold word night, and Mme. Shine won many east of Temple Bar.
triumphs. 1 remember her parti-
She came to London from Holland cularly in East Lynne' and 'The As a child of two and lived in Two Orphans? Spitalfields, which was almost a
"Mme. Shine was known all over Dutch colony. Here it was that the East End for her kindness as she and her husband founded the well as for her dramatic powers. Netherlands Club, Bell Lane, Spital- I acted with her in many plays." fields, which still exists and where Mr. Myer Burg, secretary recently many reminiscences of the Netherlands Club, said that Mme. Shine's dramatic triumphis Mme. Shine was ever ready to help
charitable objects by her talents. were recounted.
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