A friend in London who attended ths first performance by the Bolshoi Ballet at Covent Garden has written to us about her exciting exper ience:- '4
"It was s triumph; the Bolshoi Tnd nl?»novT last night proclaimed themselves ~s great as any one had hoped, expected, or dreamed of/ The great roar of cheering thnt went up from Covent Garden as the curtain descended on the first net of MRon>eo and Juliet” proclaimed thi3 one of tha grert occasions in Movent Garden history. The bal let w°.3 on a grand scrlc, with v-'.st, sombre scenes of gold and brown and dull red, set in the ancient city of Verona. Shakespeare1 £ tragedy was transformed into a new magic, the poetry of wonfe into the poetry of motion.
"Covent Garden lifted its head*in excitement at this fresh wind which came with thj Bolshoi'8 first appearance in England. Ulanova shed many of her 47 years and was like a leaf blown on that wind in her incredible pirouettes. ' At the end of the first act she took two curtain calls, looking slightly bewildered while the audience clapped and reared their delight for several minutes.
"Thousands surged round Covent Gardens before the show'started. Black marketeers wore demanding £5 for 6s. 6d. tickets."
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The tendency to vrj?niah end prettify reality began to creep into Soviet literary prc due tier s ir. the second half oi "thirties". Influenced by tl £ tiaosphere of the cult of the individual, many writers began to overlook the negative aspects and hardships of Soviet life. „• ‘ *
The love cf ilcgasr red doctrine angendered by the personality cult had an adverse effect v.pon Soviet literature. Instead of carry ing out its scored duty of studying and comprehending the manifold phencs»ena of life , it ”11 too often contented itself with illus trating generalities. The depiction of history end of life, the portrayal of individual characters was. in such,cases trimmed to fit a 3et pattern.
SPE^X IN STCCK PHRASES.
The function of art is to study slackened its attention to the life in its eternal process of life of ordinary Soviet men and development, in its eternal new women. ness. The author who forgets this (and there were some who SUZZi L CONCESSION CANCELLED, did) cannot product a true work Continued from Page 6 .______of art, but only another book in which the characters will • mont of Harch 27, 1954, the Soviet stand in their alioted places, Union is supplying Egypt with in with the "ideal heroes" neces dustrial equipment, tractors, sarily triumphing over stereo ricultural machinery, motor ve typed "v illa in s". The authors hicles, iron and steel products, of such bocks neither take the oil products, timber, grain and trouble to think for themselves pharmaceutical goods. Egypt i 3 - nor allow their characters any sending the Soviet Union cotton, individual traits; they prefer rice, artificial silk, yarn, leather to think and spe-k in stock and hides-. phr^ses. The exchange of groups of cultural' The laudation *"nd exaltation of workers and sportsiaen is also pro-! Stalin became widespread in lit moting friendship between the two erature. Some books belittled countries,. the rola of th- people, ascrib All in all, Soviet-Egyptian‘relations ing to Stalin achievements for are of a kind which one wishes would! Ahich the credit was rightly exist between all states. This is j due to the people. Literature surely worth working towards, for \ CSANriM) hall therein lies the hope of realising) peace on mother earth.______L K'*- # 0* y l*sh*, • to be merely ±llus- , *. tvnti vc 1 •: ht for L>h no few dull, st nnd-.rdie od novels, plnys nnd r-.izfi, '%* search for now artistic forma "n d ao-ns of depicting v'■'^ywas reln/.ed, Critics lowered their nosthetic standards bv?.r. -t: , o:.'k by its ‘f.uthorVi intent, by his subject- * ' n
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: til — rj Covlet iitor^urv did not conceal the contra- :j */. •• d i. ieultioe of ' 4 for the dr: antic r,iu c omnia x nature . • -lu -..i ti oovi i ;opl v.---ing w?.e faithfully n n ^ ^ J ^ _ 1 r M i e ^ d , c-.»S u^ciC. oruy r^.v.-'i cn> 'f 'tho books’ publirhed in 1938 •• Jr ;.:jr 'I)i,’J,r.t" *v i. Kryrxv, Portmying^ neohnnic Basov r.s nn ««■— «•/» - “i ndyrjiCei t;,po of Soviet mr.n ?.nd jL l^w-'»OU~r» ‘-^V aoscribing the-heroic ncticn of id on, *r i\ i c ' months since the "Iterbont" crew Krymov avoids ■-it'/ ix!.ct »r.‘ c >W 2Qt& .Ccn£v, C,cn£rocs0 £s
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LITERATURE UNSEu IKS CULT (Concluded), cning 'noscow, the poems 'by Olga Berggolts and Wocol&i iikhonov about the seige of Leningrad, the sketches of Konstantin Simonov f’nd Vasili Grossman about the defence of Stalingrad? I n the autumn o f 1942, w h e n the fascists were K icking their big p u 3h o n the Volga. "Pravdr.* published Korneichuk's play ’’Front" with its straight f o r w ? x d . analysis cf the reasons for tha temporary set backs cf the Soviet .'.ray er*d its firritictss -fit b a c k w a r d military^ leaders a n d their entourage of ignorant ""ad fawning people. PHI LADSLTKIA " 0 NSB3 S S Without losing faith in victory for ?. single moment, Soviet l i t few days ago a delegation of erature depicted the w n r p r o f o u n d Soviet scientists returned from ly and veraciously. the Fifth International Congress of ^anthropologists and Ethno The tendency to varnish reality graphers held in Philadelphia was definitely most evident in from September 1 to 9. p o s t - w a r literature. But even in this period in its main Dr. Potekhin, leader of the dele trend Soviet Literature follow gation, had thi3 to say on his ed the path of realism, the path return: cf truth and kinship with the people; it did not go back on We found that there are many its finest traditions. And p r o b l e m s cf common interest to this not only in bocks about both Soviet and American scient the war pr in historical novels, ists. At the same time we could but also in bcoks about postv.-'ir not accept the point cf view of life . One may like or dislike our ^marican colleagues on 2 Pavlenko's "Happiness", but it series of questions concerning cannot be denied that the gr- ve methods used. The majority of aftermath cf war, the difficult American ethnographers denied ies involved in reconversion, the theory of progress. They rec-J the troubles of the invalided ognised changes but denied progres Voropayev are courageously and ------objectively presented in it. Galina Wikolayeva’s Harvest £ criticised for its occasional idyllic pictures on- poor chariot* i S i S ; ! but the Herculean task of rehabilitating a ecllective ■ arm , the arsenal iru» of « rtmkovs, t h e complex processes by which people change ~nd develop -.re drawn with complete r ^ lism.
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V-.JQV ,■£ EIQHT3 AS C T 5 S y &T lO i’Al ■ ■ T7ES :
tift tnrth is tV-'.t Russians liTiar. %P O.ntr.l -sian Hopublioe ilao work at in ’ustri '.1 orAorpri#---c, and tbs; • n-^ivo tho sfcx® pay an caiov the s .r*s rirtitF as do ^-bjrs of other natiomlitied truro. m / l f r . ncupl-.s a85..rts %fi*t A s i a n s .-.t noro pay than ^nbors of ■ r ; r'"» i<: •-‘ust ~aB informing hie rcr ’bra .
7«3T COtTiWi PaOOKT^S: COuId such vr.3t cultural ^rorr^ss hr.vc bean m d o in the Kopubllc* -'i^Oontrul Asia if thorc v,vro colortiuiisr thorj, as alleged by Mr. D-'url tf-' v'ir-*>'!f h vs folt cm:jstrained to adr.it that nodical oaro j8 uni-orsaily provided in Co-*m3 Asia, and tho dootors, hospital ttondarrts and nurso# in the30 3o publics arc TJzbok, Tajik, Kazakh, fur’caon and Kirghiz aon and -raacB* 2rory year soos xoro educational or. oponod in tho Central Asian Hopublios v*oro before tho ovclvtion there vore Tory fovr lit ,r'-to people; and instruct ion thoro is In the n .tiotsal l'-pgWigec of the jc^ntral Asian peoples. Thoro are no separate schools for Russians in -cntral iisfcv. Discrimination and segr ration an? allor. to-tho Tory natur.i of tho Soviot Stato.
Iho following fact alon,-s ie onourrh to show how much tho cultural star-dards of ttv oooplc ir the Centra' Asian ^pubjios hp.ro risen, in tho Turkrer. RnpublJo lono 80 odd newspapers and mg-zinos aro pub- lishod there in a mixed laa5u-.ee -half Persian and half Turieio - and rurtawn people did not ’.mdorst-.nd it-*
Aondo’rioe of sc lories, with Vnoir -any aoiontifio rosearoh insti tute 3 , ha-ro boon ononod and.ar fmictieeiinr in tho Central -eian re publics. Xh • President of tho .cad,ny cf Soloncos of tho Kirghiz 3.3 Ji. is Prof. I. Akhuribayov, Corresponding Kbr.ber of the ..oadon^- of radical Soicnoo3 of tho TJ.3.S.A., a .Cirghiz by nationality; t^L’ r act or of the Kirrli? r Tfairorsity ifl 3. Jamflrehiyor, Doctor of Hiatorioal Scicnco, a Kirghiz, and the re-ctor of the Tajik University is ^oadomictan Ift.rsyki'.lov. a Tajii..
'■r'Z.^Z L T:si:''. C O .laTIC.'Ah A.ts BALLETS:
:v . Douflan hfcatolf attests that "I «A’»; Kirr>i* ballerinas, who h-vd boon traixud m Ibsoor:, porforriflt' inFrunzc with, a skill that vould put oTon the Bolshoi artists in JJosooiv an thoir r,wt.lo. Con»- DO, .rs*cf th-j Central Asian Jwpublicc havo oniatod national oporas ■lM ballot# for tHo first tin- in tho hi#tor/ of tho pooplo of those
Tv . publics. Do not -.11 tho«o attainnonts of th. paoplos of Control Asia in tho sphoro of culture and” r'-rt s h o w that thoRusaians rcnspdOt tho national oulturo, tr.ditions and scntirnonts of tho*e peoples?
:t .. Douglas aes-irte that ail ooononlo and political ;uostians rh I oh oonoorn tho Contral Asian 'kopublios -«rv Iwcidod In Moscow and tho mipublics noroly carry out lbs cow *5 cfdt-ra. r^.ir a a DEiccr part i:: sotting all st . tt v y p u r n t
W,. Douglas jvidontly doo« not know t t tho ‘Jr.bok S. lashidov, tho Turtewn'A. Saratov, tho Tajik H. Dodhudayov, tho Kirghiz T . Kulatov, and tiW ivazakh-Zh. P\shenov arc Vioo-Pr js idcnts of the Presidium of tho Suprvno So'.'iwt of tho U .S .S .I:. IJolfchdr does ho say anything about tho fact that KCn*>rbera of thu nationalities of Co.rtral ^ l a havo boon <; luetod deputies to th' Suprorjo Soviet of tho U .S .S .R . and take a diroot |.\rt in solving all state problems in tho U .S / 3 *2* Suprozno Soviot, «hleh is tho oountryhi^fost orrxn if powr.
It i3 r. truly startlinr diaoovufy that :.Y. Dourlas has nado, judg ing by his statorwnt, thit thuro aro spocial courts for tho trial of Russians in Central Asia. Thora aro no sopar-.to courts for Russians or nonbers of other nationalities living in tho Contral Asian Republics, .'.r. Douglas r.insolf hac adrittod that thj rtjority of tho judges thoro oorao fron tho local population. To that wo ruy add that judioial pro ceedings in tho U .S.S.R . aro c'*r. luctod in thu languago of tho Union or j.utononous Ropublic or ^utonoiious Region concerned, and pox*3 ons ■who do not*know thoso languages aro provided orcry possibility of acquainting thorsolvoa with tho mtcrlal portaining to tho c .so through an inter preter, and thoy also h&va tho rirht to spc-k in oourt in thoir own tongue.
IJiTERVTBW VITH SOVIET PRESSt
Follo-wing his tour of Contral ,'isia, J.fr. Douglas told oorrospondonts of tho 3o,riut pros3 in on intorviow that 7,-hon pooplo havo thonsolvos soon tho t ings thoy talk about, they nritu tho truth. ’Vo oan only rogrot that !5r. Douglas hus aotod in oloar contradiction of hin declaration.
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