Supplement to the SVOBODA, Ukrainian Daily - і- '•'vet Published by the Junior Department of the Ukrainian National Association. тТіТГіііі:. No.i42.> Jersey City, N. J., Friday,' October 19, tB34l " Vetma —-СЯ,
UKRAmtAW ЇАв'вАТ' ЦКЕАШІАМ'РІАІЯВТ А вТАОЕ IN NEWARK ' •• FRANKO THE EDITOR AND THE У0ШЇЇ'.':. STAB*? й і Thi' Ukrainians of:iRewark are Ivan Franko, the great Ukrainian poet, •writer' and ' From' Vienna comes'the-*;* making final preparations, for в ~ patriot, was a man of many striking talents; one of them Ukrainian 'Tag DayC "which will that Lubka Koleeea, widely knowri fall on Saturday, October 27th, 'being his ability to inspire youth to fresher- and-nobler European pianist, -wffl appear iff 1934.-. iTi endeayorsi As editor of the "Literary Educational the near future in A play.'-The Journal" he exerted a strong'beneficial influence on the. Bound Table," -by? Voltaire Ьеогд- The'purpose of thfiP'Tefcr Day" ardo, to -fee presented by thf will be to gather funds to send younger crop of the literary and other intellectual work- Vienna Academic 'Theater. Щ '• E to the Ukrainian Relief Commit ' ers of hiS day. In editing the journal, he spared ho :; tee- to aid the famine-stricken Miss -Kolessa; who . has • 'JWO* inhabitants of Ukraine under' the pains' to wade carefully through the vast mass of great fame as a pianist in Europe, material sent in by aspiring writers/ -He was ever-alert was-tnvited' several months' ago- fey Soviet .misrule. 4 The" "Ukrainian' Central Com tor new talent. WeH knowing the Weaknesses • of iyotrth a Viennese theater managemeettq appear on the stage til а-ріау.'ЯеГ mittee of Newark" is conducting \temperament he was always careful not to offend any ;l1 a. drive among the Newark Uk debut- as an 'actrese' was* »er^ contributor needlessly, but strove to show him the neces successful,'' and':on this basts" the rainians to enlist the services of sity '•an d value of careful editing. Nevertheless, when 1 500 men, women, boys and girls, Academic Theater has engaged who will be stationed throughout necessity, arose, this careful consideration. of young her to appear 4a tho forthiwrin'g the city on that day to collect people's feelings did not prevent him from being a most production. . contnoutions Into specially pre .severe critic of them and their works. He knew how to In "The Round Table" Mies pared and labelled offering boxes. detect literary gems, but he also knew how to dispose MieS Kolessa will play the leading A special effort is being made role, that of a pianist who of literary rubbish* 1 to gain the 'help of the local through marriage is forced to young'. American-Ukrainians in In his replies to those who corresponded with him give up her career as a musician. : this"' great task. It la believed or the journal, Franko not only carefully pointed out the Nevertheless she secretly pursues - - that the youth will be even more her etudies. This leads to marital successful in collecting contribu shortcomings.of their literary compositions but also gave strife which ends tragically. tions than the older folks.' All a great deab-of valuable advice as how to remedy them. young people, therefore, who have As a result^there were those who,' appreciating hi« ef- not .as .yet registered to act as col Vforta, were "not ashamed to give hinV *redjt'§i»»en "they lectors on this Ukrainian "Tag . FAJgwg - iifдуоттаивзд^; r became great- But there were- others," of Tit" different ' VIET WEAP0»' Day," are urged to register this 'caliber, whb not only resented his efforts to improve their coming; Monday evening, October if In the .face of .thfij 22nd, it -the Ukrainian Sitch Hall, writing, but grew exceedingly angry at him і when he propaganda on the pari^ol at 229 Springfield Avenue. Their corrected, •' shortened or • rejected their artieles; -~ They agencies that^everything is, aid.in* this matter will be more did not perceive how much time this great genius 'Franko in the ШЗ&К and that no^famine than appreciated. exists or existed, we; have ever had to sacrifice needlessly in perusing batches Of w6rth* ; less material. -All that they saw was their own selfish newly 'appearing reporta- cf • Дй- ' partial observers to the cehtrary. MODERN UKRAINIAN' ВЛЬЬЕТ ambition and vainglory. And, as it so -often happens, : ' William- Henry Chamberlih's ; Balletmaster Dmytro.Chutrohas such individuals left him and-went .elsewhere with, their (the newspaper correspoBdent who prepared- and arranged four : intellectual products; only to disappear in time,, and-with served 12 -years in Soviet Russia modern .Ukrainian ballets with •tHent their undeveloped talents,—for here we hav« those and-who was forced to leave-be special orchestration by Ukrainian cause'of his insistence to report Composers. The libretto in the in mind who'теаііу had talent, but who ruined it with what he saw and not-what the English language will appear in theh- "know-it-all" altitude. Soviet censorship told him to) , the/, near future In the Ukrainian л ~ Nevertheless, this did not discourage Franko. He latest book,- "Russia's 'Iro* Age," Weekly. -IMr. Chutro is preparing remained true to his ideals andconvictiohs. And thanks is a moving documemV 6*e that to present these ballets In the deservee" th«44ittentiotf|iSf'4ul Щ- American theater. to him we see today considerable'advances in Ukrainian tereeted'to Soviet Raeefc^dtnit- -"• The ballets are; (1) Holhofta, intellectual life 'and activities* for by bis unremitting raine Under its misrule. "' music Dy Nicolai Lissenko; (2) .labors and criticisms he helped to separate the chaff from - • & this 'book the author trielrjb Кого vie,-.music by Pavlo Peche- ] the wheat. $>ur spiritual and social life assumed*-higher fee scrupulousiy • fsW^-4x>ok^g niha; (3} The ' Two Fountains, task*
humorous manner, the social and tions in Ukraine under Muscovy 4 SHORT НОТУ OF UKRAINIAN LITERATURE national life of. Ukraine follow his work would be banned and he By HjEV. ML KEVASH ing the ruining of the Sitch by himself imprisoned. For ' ihat ХАІГгее translation by 8. 8.J Catherine, П. " - - * і reason his observations." as .they appear in the work are in semi- Leading Characteristics of KoOya- ' £ r- KM. humorous vein, but underneath Jt" Vergil's AenJed ~ ' * into the- Church-Slavonic language " revsky's Travesty '.' z could be detected the foundation "Aenied," which served as a with certain forms of the Uk The main characteristic of his - of realism. Furthefmore< he knew basis for- Kotlyarevsky's humor rainian national tongue by Lo- Aenied was its.national color and that the Ukrainian intelligentsia ous travesty of it under the same besevich. In 1848-40 he was tran humor. JThis local native color •of that time .was not. accustomed name, was, as we all know, the slated into the. Ukrainian tongue, was captured by- Kotlyarevsky to the sound of the Ukrainian^na- . famous epic poem written by that in the Galician sub-Carpathian borrowing Vergil's immortal theme tional spoken language and "would celebrated Roman poet, Publius idiom, by Rev. Osyp Shuchevich. and placing it in a Ukrainian ^set ignore his book, since, ft "was Vergilus Marno (70-10 В. C), He Ivan Franko also made some ting. The resulting portrait is a written In the Ukrainian" national wrote it during the last 10 years translations. But they are all faithful reproduction of Ukrainian tongue. Therefore, through the of his life. This great Roman surpassed by Ivan Kotlyarevsky's life, manners, customes, dress of medium of his Aenied, "he^ intro national epic deals with the ad travesty of "Aenied." that time. "In place "of original duced the native Ukrainian lan ventures of Aenius and his fol Aenius and his followers Kotlya- guage into the realm ої Written lowers in their wanderings from Other Foreign Translations • revsky ,- has Ukrainian Goseacks: Ukrainian literature in,-c a", half- Troy to Italy. There were a number of such "ЕнеЙ був:парубок.моторний, jesting manner, in such $ way as travesties nude in other lan і ^хлопець '^—-' хоч" куди козак! would ^ not: arouse - the "3antagon- Ukrainian Translations "of Vergil's guages. Among ., the .more im .7." ("Aeneus'Tvas a UVely fellow, ism І of -the conservatives"^ puC І^Щ^сШ&Ч^ІРя portant" was one rby- the French And quite" a Cossack for a lad.. .V would gain their interest, ind in With the revival of learning in poet; Paul Scaronne ("Vergile —W. S.).~ And it is hot the Гада time get them accustomed? to iti Europe, Vergil's influence became, Traveste"); another by the Ger . dent, Trojan warriorsr. waitflering In. this manner Kotlyarevsky | "vary- і great fa most of the Eu- man poet-Blumauer, and one by here, but -Coesgcks froni the ruin • attained his. objects, exposing ihe" i ropean countries, and in time the Russian poet Mikola Osypqv. ed Zaporogo. seeking a new place terrible conditions "in 'Ukraine (18th century) it even-''reached Each' of ОМИ poets in translat to settle. J • 3 •:" under' the political and economical Ukraine. Vergil became very ing Vergil had a different pur system that then prevailed, and- popular among the Ukrainians, pose in mind: Scaronne ridiculed How Kotlyarevsky Achieved Hb calling upon the Ukrainian people and exerted considerable influence the ancient mythological gods and Aims. to interest themselves more in ; upon Ukrainian literature. In goddeses, Blumauer criticized re . Another outstanding character' their .life, heritage and-future. The fact, as early as tne/.17th century ligious fanaticism, and Osypov istic of Kotlyarevsky's travesty book became very popular in Uk ;• Vergil was regarded with In -attacked- jpunkedness and illi .is.its humor. Kotlyarevsky well raine, and copies of it were sold as soon as printed. terest In Ukraine..:'At that time teracy; "but - Kotlyarevsky por knew that If* he told the truth some of. his works .were translated trayed in his Aenied, in a semi- openly and boldly of r.the_ condi (To be continued) --A..:
foray, as the (-scars on his -"face An order rang out, arjtf* the : IN SEARCH OF HIS flSTER eloquently -testified. „ -"Both em Cossacks moved forward ,a( • ait (A 'ato of .olden Cossack times) braced joyJBillj!?-*r. ,-_ і і *5. * • j easy trot. ^ s— - !. By ANDBIY TCHADKOvPSKV Stepan stepped; backc to regard Nedolya gave orders thofTthe : Petro ' the ' better. . Placing Г his larger part of the Cossacks break (A free translation by 8. S.). arms on the -shoulders of both aWay and make a huge ^jjjjcle, . Ju—о . A , (15) Petro and Pavlush, be.exclaimed: which would place them оф the J Tartar flank. This latter "group - "My sobs, riiy" falcons, at ;Jast 15. Hannah lg spirited away dolya ;. seeing the famished con we have all met.'.' ;' was under the command" of Petro. ^y Ь&ЛУЯ^УіІЬ Jt jfSrtg- *." JBT. dition of tie fugitives, cried out: A few minutes, of - adirrgy^ind "Listen good" people!" NedoTya • -:A}fWnt glimmer on the eastern Petro's Cossacks found themselves "Comrades, feed the hungry." was booming. ''Anyone that "wants horizon heralded the coming of a' on the Tartar flank. The Tartar Every. Cossack took out of his to join _ us is welcome. Take one в new day. The light rain had caravan, moving like some huge saddle bag the little food he had, of those captured Tartar horses ceased to fall, leaving a sodden snake below - them, - was-^snow f°f .-.they, were travelling light in that'We have aTjd some weapons . world. Here and there, *n early plainly visible. Oxen_ tjrefr-^the J order to" make better speed, and and let's get started. We have no I-blnl chirruped,* ,awakeijed --4»y wagons, while mounted" Tartars gave it toy the villager nearest time to waste.*" Г him. Between avid bites, the vil rode on the fringes of the caravan^ Щ P^ • ЬЩЯІ ж The villagers divided themselves #Ж£ Hunched around in a circle, the lagers told the Cossacks about all The Tartars wen now, 'unknown into two groups. A small number to them as yet, in a trap. To- group of escaped captives from the that, happened since the night of them started, back to theirs ' Tartars "sat around, shivering when their village of Spasivka was their rear were the "Cossacks ruined village of Spasivka, deter under Nedolya, keeping out. of. . from the morning chill. No "one attacked by the Tartars. mined to rebulld.it and continue spoke, all were preoccupied with Pavlush in the meanwhile was r sight; to. the left the Cossacks life as before, Tartan or no Tar under. Petro; while to the.right their thoughts, of their dear "ones searching for his father and sis tan. Others, notably those Who ' who had been either massacred by ter. Suddenly he perceived him, was the river. j?2 ~ had lost everything, even ' their Two rapid shots rang out In the_ the Tartars or taken into captivity, worn and haggard, in the center dear ones, cast' their lot in with • and of what the future would still air. It was the signal to' of the villagers. the Cossacks. Quickly they found attack. .1 brink them. "Father! Father!" he cried joy Tartar mounts and Tartar weap In an encircling movement"the 'лр-^чй&хі ' fully, running towards him: ons for themselves, and mounting Cossacks thundered towards the: Suddenly from far-out in the joined the Cossacks. Stepan, hearing the unexpected caravan, yelling and brandishing distance a faint sound was heard. • In the latter group was- Stepan. tones of his little boy, whirled a- their weapons. £:One of- the huddled figures, Ste- He had nothing, to return for to round, and** saw Pavlush. Both The Tartan made haste tadraw . x -pan, heard it, and rose quickly embraced, Pavlush sobbing with Spasivka. . -. "4 . to his feet. The sound grew up their wagons in a" circle.^Jut louder and louder, .until it could gladness. Nedolya, leaving'a few Cossacks it was too late for this manoever. be distinguished/ as that. -of "But where is sister -Hannah?" to guard the nearby abandonned The Cosacks were upon them with horsemen approaching. By this Pavlush asked, looking around, Tartar camp, took tne main body a rush. A short but fierce battle - time the others were on their feet, and first realizing that she was * with him in pursuit after, the ensued. Some of the Tartars at peering intently into the still not around. fleeing Tartars. Stepan went with tempted to put up a resistance, shadow-enshrouded steppe.- who ."She's gone, sonny, she's gone!" this latter group also, hoping, but were soon put out of the could it be? Perhaps it was the Stepan spoke heavily, eyes star-* that perhaps he could still rescue fighting. Othen attempted to Tartars again, were their thoughts. ing into the ground. "The Tar his daughter Hannah. flee, but wen caught with las tars took her and mother with For a moment the Ukrainians The trail was easy to follow, soes. In a few moments the battle were undecided as to what to do. them,!' he added. was over. The entire caravan with . "Bat didn't you see mother for the Tartars had their wagons Suddenly, with one accord, they with them. all its food, weapons, merchan dashed into the nearby thickets by killed by the Tartars?" Pavlush dise fell into Cossack hands. asked, not realizing that his Wishing to catch up with the the river bank. Each fugitive hid Tartars as soon as possible the As soon as they saw that the himself as best he could, and with father was so busy fighting then that he had not perceived how Cossacks urged on their horses battle was practically over, Stepan bated breath awaited the oncom to an easy gallop, on their aide with his son retro ran over to ing friend or foe. his wife had been slain by the Tartars. the Samara river glistened in the the wagons from which Ukrainian captives were crawling out. They The drumming of the horses' Stepan stared at Pavlush with sun, reflecting occasionally the did find some young people from hoofs grew steadily in volume. horror-stricken eyes. His dear image of a Cossack as he gal Spasivka among them... As the- mists of the night drifted Pelagia killed! He could not loped near -the river's edge. No away, they disclosed to the an believe it. Slowly his hands word was spoken, only the thud "But where is Hannah?" Pav xiously watching eyes a body of clenched and unclenched, as he ding ' of the horses' hoofs dis lush was asking anxiously, follow horsemen' cantering towards the strove to keep his grief within turbed the heat-oppressive silence. ing his father and brother. river. One of the hidden watchers, -him... It was about noon when the "She is not hen, sonny," one of the younger freed captives peering intently, suddenly let out "Father,- don't you remember scouts in front sighted in the nplied. "Last night' a • group of a whoop of joy, for he perceived me?*' a quiet voice spoke at his distance the Tartar caravan.. Tartars took all girls and young that the approaching horsemen elbow. Nedolya gave the order to atop boys on their horses and galloped were not Tartan but Cossacks. * Stepan turned around. He saw for a- few minutes, ..water, and rest their horses. Tnere was no furiously in the direction of At his cry the others sprang to before him a Cossack, a half smile Crimea. on his face, tears filming his flash danger of their prey escaping their feet, and with cries of'joy Stepan clapped his •hands in and welcome rushed forward to ing eyes. It Was Petro, his son. them now. This rest period did not last despair. Pavlush began to_ tear meet the oncoming Cossacks. The ''Petrol Petro!" Stepan cried, his hair out wildly at this news, latter, • seeing them, spurred their disbelieving his eyes. Petro had very long. Noon' was the- best time to attack, for the stultifying and weep unrestrainedly. Ail. hope : hones forward. left him to join the Cossacks was now gone... j -^ when just a boy, and now he saw heat of the noonday sun would "'•J^—A joyful reunion ensued. before him a bold young Cos make the Tartars less wary to a £•?£•> The leader of the Cossacks, Ne- sack, veteran of many a Cossack possible attack. (Concluded on page 4) No. 42. UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY. OCTOBHR 10, 1034. 3. |t -ft CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN SPORTS AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM FOR UKRAINIANS ARCHITECTURE (Address delivered at the. Second UkralnUav Youth's Congress et I 1*4 America by Alexander Дтсшко) IS (Concluded*
!fTo the'.very meager literature on few .original contributions of the ; ^Ukrainian architecture there has Eastern Slavs . to the Byzantine r*» . beWCadded lately a ndteworthy architecture. Mr. Buxton thinks To those -who perhaps doubt YiL.,» N. A. will endeavor cttitrtbu'tiqn. . To be sure, David that^the Ukrainian wooden archi the capabilities of Ukrainians' in- I definitely affirm their nation) EWdttT' Buxton's volume on "Rus- tecture has a style entirely dis sports, permit me ~to - mention a and let it be publicly known "slin Medieval Architecture," pub- tinct: from that . of • the' north, few of the known Ukrainian stars In -Boxing, Johny Jadick ' *IHiRussian architecture, •pjte-Ghri^fcin;. pejidd.'P - ' І £ 4 4< ^Ofegon'r - who 3«as. selected otalthe grand^jbje^ and may > sue g ^o^ginally". stimulated by his.visit ~ f^'ff \p- uaualS f he* writes; . t6' :1833: AlT-iAmencan Sdeqnd ;Tpam JadiclT'ЧЩмі fWre із;Steve Ha- •j, IrtqtRussig in 1927v and kept ТШУЗ abei^ejmoslc CJC-the details of the and played ^recently at Soldttr'ji, і laiko, a» te^blu^-'Ukrainian ^r^oi jfj 3>jj tjyo lung journeys 'into- Russia present cHuccftei' -to ^the bajoque Field, Chicago, on the All-jjo^tjBuffalo^wh* hafl boxed.for the^ 5? "unde^ken with" 'the special pur- e ii^iience • coming in Jrpm Aland legiate eleven-opposing Nagurafci'erK U. S. Оіздй^ґс .Феаіп in 1928 -ahoTV '?. Pv? J2f securing -photographs for in tfie seventeenth century, iyvfien team-mates,-"Йіе Chicago Bearsl^Jvwon in his' class. There are. also his 006k,' in 1928 and 1932. He that country -Was very strongly The following gridmen are said to, } rumors that .Steve Hamas is - • had no trifling diffleulties not only 'mbucd .with -the baroque spirit be Ukrainians—Bodanski of Col і partly Ukrainian, he.-being the || collecting his material and photo Orr architecture." But іде plans gate; Lutz-of Notre Dame, Petro- I outstanding heavyweight conten- graphs, but alsp th saving them cortainly show no such' influence, sky of Michigan, Nowalik of -Mi |- der to Max Baer's; throne at arid are probably retained in a chigan, Ropscak of Army, Kara- present.' • '"from the hands of overzealous very "primitive -totprf' Ti'Q v 11 >jeustom officials. If an English- ban of W"»w^'i" Wічпііі&:. $tri()TJft!l, In Swimming, these is Johnny • ..'man Sad been subjected to such Even though' outwardly .there Pauk of Princeton,"/Skladariy of Kojack, the 1923 Inter-Collegiate ^difficulties, we could imagine what might be "some resemblance be Pittsburgh, Lunati .of the Агдпу high scorer and a member.of the s would happen if the collector were tween, the church 'in the original and Gurzinsky of Temple. 1928 U. S. Olympic Team, which ii -A Ukrainian. Ukrainian style and a Russian- In Baseball, the-; following are event he won for America. He is „ The - Ukrainians must feel ob style ;chu~eh, the'.differences are. said to be of Ukrainian origin, at present, I believe, ihe holder of ligated" to the author also for bis essential; £ "The Ukrainian type, (thanks to a Ukrainian Weekly I the backstroke ^titie. In swim- •' ^calling, attention to the neglect of with five cupolas," .-Mr. Buxton contributor) Susko-o. Washington, ming there is an opportunity for і І -*віе study of the Russian architec- writes, "bears no resemblance to in the American League, Urbanski some Ukrainian girl to exhibit her >{ " ture, -to the silly descriptions of the Russian five-domed church: of Boston, and. Swetonic ' of prowess. Perhaps there is one ' • the Russian architecture as. a the. former has its four extra Pittsburgh. In the minor leagues somewhere, but unknown. jj kind of Byzantine debased by the glomes on the' axis of the church, no doubt are found many more, In Wrestling, the' Ukrainians ,. Tartars and degenerated by the thelatter on the diagonals. There but again, I ask, does the public that were born In Ukraine have ', "^Russians.; as this gives us a clear exists—atoo"' a 'WWple ^tjfpe, > with know that they are- Ukrainian? dominated this sport, namely:' ; ^conception how badly neglected is but j&. single cupola, and. a more The Athletic Commituie .of the U. Alexander Harkavenko, Ivan Pid- . •She study of -the Ukrainian ar- complex, with no less tfian nine, . w; ",. 'TSjiiif „S^lft dubney," Ivan Zeliznak, Metros Ke- mtecturey The author ascribes the. building consisting virtually of -J rll ^Л_ relenko and Count Zarynoff. he first interest in. the' Russian three churches side by fide.. The' 5 ТЛА all these wrestlers, only Count f^architecture as due to the efforts latter is yery.uncommon and re • ~у-з~*іЗ&Зї1 Zarynoff publicly declares that of a Vlollet de Due, and he does latively modern, being represent- . Ukrainian wooden. jirchitee^ire. is a Ukrainian, while the rest are •'• icaot close his eyes to the fact that" ed in the 'Ukraine only by a. very The little church-df the 'Vladbnir erroneously labeled as Russians. this man was not free from Slavo- few., examples." Mother of God* In theKital Gorod In Zarynoff,' the Ukrainians have phflic bias, which led him to exag- While the author- nolds in high repeats a single-domed type from of ' the fastest, cleanest and I! . £erate~ the Asiatic at the expense esteem the .Ukrainian wooden the Ukraine; its spucy dome re most - scientific ' wrestlers, beini. of the European connections in church, he thinks that "baroque calls one of those of St. Basil. very popular with the fane be Russian -art. Though Mr. Buxton architecture .in the Ukraine did The Novodevichi Monastery has a cause of* his sly manner- of evai sees, in the Slavonic movement a ^not produce a single building of number Of excellent examples of Ing the deadly holds arid bone- • i great (utttulfilled) promise for the the style. Among them the crushing grips that his far heavier outstanding beauty or interest," 1 :. Study of Russian arts, we cannot a statement which at any rate Church of the Intercession takes opponents attempt to apply. Bu- jj forget that the .Slavophil move- shouM. be challenged at least as after the Ukrainian three-domed lavenetz, a Ukrainian, is the New .1 ment, :byYtts connections with the facri&i" Lviv is concerned in which plan, and several towers show the "•fbrltwState Wrestling Champion, official.'. Rjissian nationalism, im St.•• George's -Ukrainian 'Catholic 'storeyed' arrangement origin while Harkavenko is performing perialism -and churchdom, was op cathedral is considered "a beauty ating in the same region." -. strong-man feats in Germany, posed " to vt he* Ukrainian national even by the Poles, who are not The "storeyed'* style he attri and in a recent nation-wide mat movement? and, though reviving prone to concede' such things to butes to the direct influences of tournament, finished second - the..Interest in Russian architec- Ukrainians. This -province, how- Ukraine,* "for a Ukrainian im In Track, 4he Ukrainian are : bire. did all in its power to stifle e^f^-liesi beyond the author's migration to tne north took place lacking, although Walter Nacho- S the interest in Ukrainian architec- spHft*' of interests as according In the seventeenth century." He ney. Temple Soph, Is a potential means, of course, the immigra •* fcre. ;«V> to him, "from the general stand great miler. } g He dates the first really scien point- ,of view of Russian arphi- tion of Ukrainian scholars, church Mention must -be bade of the;' men, and intellectuals, generally, tific interest in Russian architec tectWaT htotqry," the' interest of. Ukrainian-American Soccer team Aire from the "History of Russian these two styles. Ukrainian wood who played such an important of Philadelphia. - This soccer team' 'and Ukrainian baroque,- lies in role in the cultural development is recognised in Philadelphia as Art," by Igor Grabar, who, in of Moscow, a service for which cidentally .speaking, was of Uk their- -effect.: on..the development one of the fastest Amateur teams of architecture- in Moscow. The Moscow repaid Ukraine with re and in a recent* Allied Cop Tour- rainian blood, and whose family had pressions and persecutions of .the I nament emigrated to Russia from the former style contributed new sug was very close in re Transcarpathian Ukraine, after gestions in the matter of general Ukrainian culture. presenting the U. S. abroad his mother had been condemned form and plan; the latter handed A volume of this kind would be against an Italian champion team there by the Magyar courts for on its heritage of baroque orna of no value 'without a rich sup in Rome. Better luck for them subversive activities. Loukomski, ment. The result was tne appear ply of photographs. Mr. Buxton's at their next attempt! whose Work on the Russian archi ance, in Moscow, of a style more book has many of them, end they A survey of the above mention tecture of the 11th to the 17th pleasing and interesting than the are all well done and well selected. ed '•ЬЦЦ'',' proves than Ukrain century Mr. Buxton values very Ukrainian .. baroque by whose Of course, a gnat many of them ians predominate in meet of the highly, is also of Ukrainian de agency it came into being." illustrate the author's remarks sports. But we must strive to аЬкЗзд scent. In the history of laying Mos about Ukrainian ' architecture. tain loftier heights, with a greater - Mr, Buxton is conscious of the cow open to Western influences There are many pictures of Kiev number of Ukrainians, so that discontinuous and cataclysmic his Mr. Buxton sees the most signi churches, and four pictures il through sports the American tory of architecture in Russia. ficant event in the annexation of; lustrating the chapter on Ukrain public can become interested in He decries the suppressive Influ Ukraine in 1664. "This' was the ian wooden churches. Ukrainians- and eventually be ence of the Russian official church outcome," the author' says, "not Outside of the treatment of the come, our friends and admirers. and • the Russian government oT".ermed cottq*uest, *' but' of a Ukrainian architecture in West So onward and forward we directed against the free archi friendly treaty between the two ern Ukraine "the book needs also shall proceed, with the undaunted- tectural development of the coun countries,—Great Russia and Lit a treatment of the "secular"' Uk ness .of a Cossack, priming our tries under the tsarist reign. In tle RusSIa ..""After the annexa rainian architecture. It might be selves to a successful' campaign his outlines he presents us with tion of Ukraine by Muscovite of some interest to the people which will gradually make Amer plenty of evidence to the activi Russia, "the way was open for interested in beauty to - know ica, Ukraine-conscious. We have ties of these factors, distorting the* assimilation by Moscow of the something of the style of houses the necessary . qualities, have the development of a truly na baroque style.: .'Some baroque and castles in Ukraine. The prepared ourselves, are now set, tional and original style. churches keep „to the traditional wooden hut of the Carpathian so let us GO—on toward an un -'Ttke-' oppressive policies of the square plan, .and the central mountaineer is surely an in.teres.t- paralleled period of Ukrainian official church and of the state cupola is ' surrounded "by four ing contribution to the treasure of sport prosperity that will even towards Ukraine were even more others on <' the , corners... More architecture. Without this, the tually coin the pronoun "Ukrain deplorable as the wooden churches often, however, they follow one or architecture seemed to be limited ian" as a familiar and popular of Ukraine constitute one of the other of the forms suggested by exclusively to churches. adjective in all branches of врогЦ; ,j
^&ялМ££ШШМ UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. FRIDAY. OCTOBER I"
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UKRAINIAN AFFAIRS IN AMERICA
AN APOLOGY DEM^NDQp Ukrainian Nationalists, which is UNIVERSITY UKRAINIAN. typified the fire and manhood of ,. [Note:—The writer p* theiJet- the youth, section of the Organiza SOCIETY ? the Cossacks who defended their ter. reprinted below,—one whose tion for the Rebirth of Ukraine, country from enemies and pro During this year a successful • address delivered fit the'Ukrainian implores you to join their branches tected western . civilized Europe • Day in the East appeared m last 'ant) meet- some people of your attempt has been made to organ ize a group .which which would from barbarous invasions. An- - yetaWe issue, of the Ukrainian own blood, to associate with them, other historical dance from the to play • with' them, to work with embrace in its active member Weekly in form of an aKicle en eighteenth century was .-the Chu- titled- "Interesting Ourselves" In them, -and to believe, with them, ship college graduates and stu in the same cause. dents who reside in the metropo mak of the Steppes. Then-came the • The Ukrainian • Cause,'*—charges Kolomeyka, which is the charac us in his letter with having! "mur- "Most likely, dear young Ameri litan . New York area. This ac tion was undertaken as a direct teristic dance Of the Ukrainian • dered" his address when we can-Ukrainians, all' of these people living in the Carpathian deleted thet opening and closing speeches have frightened -you as result of the long felt lack among such individuals of means where Mountains. The Arkan, an old remarks of it. to then type of і organizations this Scythian-Ukrainian dance, a most la. • Remember, we-' are not all by they could- come together to We wish- to. stress- that -this beautiful dance, was performed j '"murderi-' was prompted only- by politicians or і philosophers і or become- better acquainted and- to some peculiar type of people.'We reach a bettor understanding- a- entirely by a group of boys.who our Editorial duty of striking out were led by' their director. - ' the superfluous • and presenting are human and being, such we in- mong themselves.- The group has -• o^ily the essential and Interestmg- dulgei:in і various' -pastimes • that adopted the name '• University • Uk Other dances were the'Hayevka, parts to • the . readers - at large. other people: of our category do. rainian Society." •. an j31d eastern roundle;- Katnorine, і Qbwever, it we-have, to put'it We' have various means of diver- . This society is a. non-partisan a salon dance) Kozachok; from the - *;SWt more -gently, overstepped the tisemente and we also believe in .group and has no political or re province of Podolia; Houyveeter, bounds of our editorial discretion, the adage that all play and no ligious affiliations. Its purpose is to running with the wind; Hopak, a then let our readers be the judge. •woric:makes 'Jack a dull boy. bring together the - Ukrainian popular-folk dance -and- many n We -therefore reprint,' verbatim, "Our.organization attempts to graduates. and students, of univer others. These dances, -one may below, the complainant's letter to- j teach uS, primarily,'' to ' be good sities, colleges and other- institu safely state held the audience 'en getner with the • deleted parts of Americans and secondly ' to re tions of similar rank. tranced throughout- the ' entire he article.—EdHef.]. member.