Show ' - 7: ierognMetrWrr--t&ed-e The SaIt Lake Tribtme Tueeday G October 21 19427 4 t ' Soviet Today Choked Arts Stage Revival in Russia kl ' ' Finally it ended looking like a aky emerged — hair rumworn pled face serious lie began to revile First a conventional attack on China and the cub tural revolution Then be denounced "khamstvo" — Russ-la'- s traditional boorishness le read a poem called 'Revolt of the Strip Teaser?' and another about the death of poetry the death of Copernicus the death of Dante These great men died Rut their truth lived on teen-age- truth Ile spoke of things of which Russia might be pmund and things for which she must be ashamed Shame was not an emotion to be concealed A face was not just for shaving It was for blushing too lie spoke of those who banged their shoes on the table of the United Nations and worried not about what they did but whether their feet smelled And he spoke with contempt of those who played with Vietnam as though it were a toy Today said Voznesensky the people ask and need the naked truth t e Stand Applaud audience did not leave when he had finished People stood and applauded Voznesensky called for quiet He spoke of Lyublmov ill in a hospital "He is a brave man" said Voznesensky "He i wants and needs your support" The 200th performance of 'Antiworlds" was an event of the Soviet theater Not since the last public speech of the great director Meyerhold in 1939 had the Moscow stage resounded with words so strong so forceful so uncompromising in support of hones ty and creativitiy the free-dar- n of the artist to portray reality as it was perceived by the artistic conscience major consequence 1 4 ' 4 in Days of Glory of the Bolshevik ary stage a li 1 June : of 1939 he a addressed conference of theatrical direc- tors lie said: 'Without art there is no theater! Co visiting the theaters of Moscow took at their drab and boring presentations that resemble each other and are each worse than the oth- ers everything is gloomily averagely ar- stupefying and cwen-regulat- lack of tat Is that your aim? If it is — oh! You have done some- thing monstrous! You have thrown out the baby along with the hathwater In hunt- Jog down formalism you have 1 in its dared in their apartment w!trtber by police agents or 1' SAIGON US Navy hammered Haiphong again Monday in the campaign to paralyze North Viet jets ''' 41t 4 '' '' Ai 1 ' ' ' nam's main port US Army troops dashed with the Communists in an Intermittent seven-hou- r battle south of Da 1 ' 1 k ' 1( 1 I '01 - t ' i 'R 1 1-- I - - - ' 1 ' 1 i1--r Carrier-basewar US planes struck Halphong's rail- 0 '':V" K - Nang i : ' d road yard for the second straight day and also attacked a major highway bridge In ' 4 k d'' - - i ‘ t 4 kJ raids aimed at clogging the city's wharves and warehouses with supplies brought In by - t4- ' 4 sea 1 the and Brisk Fighthig Late reports from the northern provinces told of brisk ground fighting 24 miles south of Da Nang US spokesmen said elements of the 3rd Brigade 1st Airmobile Cavalry Division killed 46 Communist soldiers In the seven hours of fighting amund a fortified vil- lage Casualties to the cavalrymen were listed as 15 killed 1" v gt4I Gaulle" (Copyright) France Shuns British Market Bid 13-t- ary MarInes a --be- playwrights by the Sovremennik (contemporary) theater but in general a Moscow director said "Homosexuality doesn't seem to us to be such a pressing problem and Albee's plays appear to be remote from our DELIII (AP) government committee NEW concluded Draws Top Interest Pluchek order" " e' in-la- merit On a table overflowing with backs is a big new vol- - 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BANKS - N l' t--t t 1967 ' 6A t 41 The' I FAIR - L ' to - di was to be seen in the theater as well Directors of theaters hit the satire the Sovremennikliond the Taganka had increasing difficulty in getting clearance for new productions except of the conventional type The Tagankzi and its gifted Osborne Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman have been Ipresented They know Edward Albee Harold Pinter and Le 3 Jones Albee's "Ballad of Rol In j : - c 1 the anniversary John spree" Against this background the Rome newspaper 11 Messagero said several groups of Catholic traditionalists were "to stepping up activities impede new attacks on the already abused tradition of the liturgy and sacred music" (UPI) — Three Scandinavian fliers who spent nine days on the freezing arctic tundra after their light plane crashed on a transpolar flight were picked up by helicopter Mon - As' j pictures shared certain Each characteristics was harshly realistic in the big mar Bergman style each con- Inepierus2avsity realism Whereas in the US Stanislavsky ("the method") Ihad come to represent protheatrical art in gressive Russia it had become a brake upon imaginative techniques Not that the Moscow theater Is ignorant of foreign plays and t The u:suiuonoL cal - toyevsky's "A Boring Tale" a film of rural life called "Asya Khromonozhka" and the "Passion of Andrei Rublov" a story of Russia's famous medieval painter of ikons tained grim pathological saBecause distic sequences they broke with tradition and aroused controversy ' they were put on the shelf not to be released until after the hot- - fast they should be enacted A Canadian the bishop Most Rev George B Flahiff of Winnipeg charged that recent updating of liturgy seemed a "timid and blade-quot- e compromise" Other bishops urged restraint In doing away with traditional aspects of Sunday Mass and one warned against "a liturgi- tIt'' I were important pictures These were a filming of Dos- For the first time in the experience of many members of words like the audience "whorehouse" and "prostitute" were bandied across the The Russian stage and blowzy prostitutes breasts bulging and hips swaying made their appearance before the spectators "We don't do Brecht very well here" Pluchek admitted Ile thought the reason lay in - Copier Rescues Trio From Arctic " was staged production that with boldness and imagination Words Reappear He suggested that the market members should talk over their demands on Britain before opening negotiations directly with London lie denied that France was trying to stall against Britain's entry Into the market but that all the problems entailed in Britain's membership should be thrashed out first VATICAN (AP) — The Vatican bishops synod was reported under pressure from an intense lobby of Roman Catholic conservatives Monday to oppose any more changes in the church's worship practices But after the synods second day of debate on liturgy — its final topic — most of the bishops appeared to favor the trend to modernize worship services that gained Impetus with the Vatican Ecumenical Council There were clashing views however on how far the changes should go and how e awaiting the passage of the Nov 7 celebrations before ing released Three of these - franc" Lobby— Pie—sTs'iliel -- was presenting "The Threepenny Opera" this year in a bers that Britain could not become part of the trading bloc until the pound becomes a "national currenq '' like the LUXEMBOURG (UM — threw a firm body block at Britain Monday and made It clear England would probably never gain admission to the European Common Market while Charles de Gaulle is president De Gaulle has steadfastly opposed British membership because of London's ties with the United States Speaking for De Gaulle Minister Foreign Monday Couve de Murville told a nteeting of diplomats representing the six market mem France : — — ' New York Times Service ANDORRA LA VELLA — Charles de Gaulle obviously reof Andorra Monday became the joicing in his title of to visit this principality in the or French king first president mountains between France and Spain The president's imperial manner and sense of history man aged just barely to overcome some of the musical comedy an pects of the occasion The last great historical figure to visit Andorra before him was Charlemagne who came eleven and a half centuries ago according to legend to thank the Andorrans for helping him fight the Saracens When the general stepped down to the main square of Andorra La Vella the territory's only town this morning a choir of school children launched Into the Andorran anthem which begins: "Le Grand Charlemagne my father has delivered'ine from the Arabs" De Gaulle of course is known to his country men as "Le Grand Charles" His language was regal when he acknowledged the cheers of the crowd of soine 3000 thanking them for "the reception — to Charles de that you have given to your French (AP) — 1 occurs in a madhouse in the jubilee year of the revolution" he said Grigory Kozintzev brother-of the late writer Ilya eliminated art" - - - - Ehrenburg is a Soviet film Led Away to Die director who survived the Two days later the secret harshest repressions of Stalin police led Meyerhold away to to win a prize for his film die in Stalin's concentration "Hamlet" in the camps probably in 1940 A era He lives in Leningrad few days after his arrest his with a beautiful wife and son in a this apart- wife Zinaida Erkh was mur- - I1 fehbaltiNit i i 1 I a presented I - '' 1 -'t L Revolu- In those days the poet playwright - artist Vladimir was creating Zlayakovsky new forms breaking every Ikon smashing every tradition The revolution raced like fire through the arts — ballet was transformed by Dinghilev &kat Nllinsky and Stravinsky art by Kandinsky lqalevich Tatlin Chagall The world of films was electrified by the work of Eisenstein rudovkin Dovzhenko And Then Stalin Most of these talents were extinguished by Stalin Meyer- hold's theater was liquidated Jan 8 1938 The director him- self survived a bit longer In 1 1 7 Mayakovsky theater Okidopkov began to experiment with some of Meyetkold's old 1 excitetnents Ile staged a dramatic "Hamlet" and an interesting "Mother Courage" the first Brecht play to be per- Andrei Voznesensky a leading young tiworlds" is the framework for theat- and 17 wounded l formed in Moscow Ills pr- ' Soviet "Anwhose hi Taganka Theater Moscow collection rical poet Elsehwere in the northern oduction of Euripides° part or the country US Ma"Medea" with a choir of WO director Lyublmov spent six akovsky says: "Nyet" Final- rines below the demilitarized With ume called "Meetings voices and a Creek chorus of months fighting for permis ly Mayakovsky tormented by zone underwent another day 40 women became a theatrical Meyerhold" for on the banality of his critics of light harrassing - mortar a about production tn the great "Meyerhold commentary upon prison called flees "Pos and artillery fire from North the stage fluence camp of spirit and body creattoday" Kozintzev Mayakovsky The final scene is a funeral US Vietnamese gunners ed in Russia by Stalin said In films the influence of lushaltel" ("Listen!") Persmission has died said 78 rounds of Vag There finally ttayakovsky Eisen- Eisenstein spokesmen is last supreme died Okhlopkov year to are ikon-lik- e given present "Pos portraits of him enemy shelling landed on Con stein escaped Meyerhold's his visions as a director still lushaltel" the in The of summer funeral oration hails the Mien and nearby forward beat died fate lie by a heart unfulfilled 1967 and instantly it became for his origibases which a month ago of a heart attack hi 1948 Valentin Pluchek director of the most popular production nality Ids independence- - his were being hit with bombardMc$COW's satire theater was Todars Great Influence In Moscow To create "Pos dedication to truth Only the ment of 500 to 100 °rounds the first to restore to the Rus— lushaltel" Lyublmov ripped artist knows what the truth is daily Xotintzev was deep in prepsian stage the great utires of In his own terms and aration for a film of "King apart quotations from May only the 2 Marines Burt Mayakovsky — "T h akovsky and declarations to truth is Important Lear" In his view ShakesBedbug" "The Bathhouse" In the latest shelling two Mayakovsky lie fashioned a peare was a man with a re The Question and "Mystere-Bouffe- " all rnarkable contemporary spirit scenic collage mounting it were wounded banned for years by Stalin The Taganka audience burst spokesmen reported whose understanding of the against a battery of lights But Moscow still ba I long Into applause at the oration noises music sound pictures The US Command made universality of human characand the question sprang to no announcement immediateway to go in his opinion ter enabled him to foresee the posters and sensations future Ills plans for the treatNo Theater of Absurd The pace was so swift that mind: Was Lyubimov suggest ly of any plane losses in the had raids ment of Lear revolved about the audience gripped the seat log that Mayalcovsky against the North The "We have no theater of the been driven to his death by this concept Lear would be a of its chairs Out of the meNorth Vietnam News Agency absurd here" he sa id universal modern figure lie lange of sensation the portrait suicide in 1930 by party claimed two American planes 'Indeed we have no young would come to life in contemof Mayakovsky human but demands for conformity? Was were shot down playwrights nor old play terms par heroic emerged greater than the director presenting On the political front radi porary wrights writing in that genre life-siz-e The play turned into allel between Mayakovsky cal Buddhists opposed to KozSuch an approach Ionesco is unknown to Rus— and the struggle that raged President-elecbetween Van a debate intzev was Maytold t raging Nguyen inevitably sian audiences A couple of around the role of Voznesen recalled Stalin Thieu nailed down about 20 akovsky the iconoclastic artyears ago 'Rhinoceros' was sky Yevgeny Yevtushenko ' seats and servile ist the sterile In the smiled "Naturally" he prepared for presentation but and the pleiad of new Soviet virRouse of Representatives The younger Soviet film forces of party bureaucracy it was not put on I don't writers? directors were beginning to A party meeting is summoned tually complete election reknow why" The Soviet theater has not turns showed for Tuesday move in the direction of to denouce Mayakovsky The answer was official his yet regained the brilliance it unconventionality who Antonioni Michelangelo Footholds Gain conservatism a reluctance of displayed in the first years of they felt was the most tal7 the censors to permit the Flees the Stage the Revolution But unless the of every major Candidates ented innovator of contempostage to present any spectacle forces succeed in political hue gained footholds ev don't make reactionary "Why you film They partrary that might be seen by the aumaking out the shooting stars In the House liked Antonioni's erything beautiful the way snuffing icularly dience as implying some critiof the Taganka the Sovremen do Bolshol One Saigon newspaper aut the at they "Blow-Upcism however oblique of the theater?" a woman party nik and the satire theaters in vyed the results and said the Affects Film World party's state dictatorship member asks "You must Moscow and those of Niko lel House "will be really repreEven Brecht is not yet widewrite so that the workers and Akimov's effervescent come sentative of the confused po The 40th afanniversay ly played in Russia except for can understand dy theater in Leningrad a Utica' situation in Vietnam" peasants fected the Soviet film world "The Threepenny Opera" Russian "new wave" in a may The main political group as It did all fields of artistic you" Oneparty secretaryto which has gone Into the repersoon splash over the stages of ings critic appeals the gists appear to be a progovtoire and can be found in proand cultural endeavor More and ernment alliance with about party group: "Am I right? Da Berlin Paris London vincial houses The Lenin Kom20 ill nyet — yes or no" All New York than a dozen excellent films seats a southern group somol Theater in Leningrad with 20 and the Buddhists shout: "Da" Only May (Copyright) were said to be held up - tion and the years just after had been dazzling 'Those were the days of the glory of the Moscow art theater under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemerovich-Banchenko the explosion of talents of Meyerhold which set the pace for the theatrical world far beyond Russia's borders the flowering of Tairov and the young Ihkolal Okhlopkov with his revolution ' i3 i painfully Soviet theater began to revive After Stalin's death One of the first innovators was Niko lai Okhlopkov He had been one of Meyerhold's most proiniaing proteges Now In his new The Russian stage at the time ' 4 premature death Revival Begins Slowly 1 '' 1 theater was closed and Tairov died r Spotlight on Truth Again and gain he spoke of truth Nothing else mattered Truth in life Truth In rt Truth in politics Finally he &livered a poem called "Monologue" We must bring hypocrisy to an end he said No more lies Just speak the the ' '' ' 8 41t camps Tairov tried to carry on with his Karnerny theater but In lt was the hopeless drive "Antleosmopolitanism" 1949 'Le Grand Charles' Pays Regal Visit to Andorra Haiphong : Artem Vesely Vladimr KIrshon and Serge' died in Stalin's 'rretyakov and - '' 4 i1 'mak Babel of 1918 ' ' casual murderers has !rot been disclosed For years Meyerhold's critique of the Soviet theater held true Dramatists Like Voznesen- (1 a rl: Continued From Page One splashy music splashy movement young people frugging and twisting across the stage Next came a satire called "strip tease" A sinuous girl annulated Gypsy Rose Lee Electronic flashed Lights music assaulted the ears The performance went on in the Lyublmov style No intermission Tension built higher and 0 Scanning World Scenes Jets Blister Dods of ''' - |