... By Horace Horsnell The Russians (Playhouse) A HUNDRED years separate the writing of that lovely play, A Month in the Country, from that of this heroic contemporary melodrama; and though they are both Russian, they have as little in common as peace and war. For whereas Turgenev approaches his theme romantically, and handles it as a poet, Konstantin Simonov, author of The Russians, writes as a ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE MASTER BUILDER.-- Has any dramatist ever written a more baffling play than this? Does the keenest student of the high-brow drama know what it is driving at? Did Ibsen himself really know what he was driving at? As a tale it is comparatively simple --about a bad-tempered architect, jealous of the rising generation, with a wife depressed because her two babies had ...