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5 Autograph Manuscripts Signed, 18 pp total, all Moscow, comprising: "The Moscow Theater Public of Today," 4 pp, February 27, 1922, browned and cleanly torn; "A Moscow Letter," published in The Nation as "The Russian Theater of Today," 5 pp, March 7, 1922; "The Theater of Comedy and Melodrama of Moscow. The Picture of Dorian Gray," 2 pp, February 2, 1922; "The Hebrew Studio-Theater, 'Gabima' of Moscow," 5 pp, February 1922; "Some New Plays in Moscow Spring Season," 2 pp, June 7, 1922.WITH: 3 Typescripts with holograph annotations, 15 pp, Moscow, initialed in a few places, comprising: "The God of Revenge (notes on the Jewish Cameri Theater in Moscow)," 3 pp, February 1, 1922; "Bread or the Circus. On the Great State Theater of Moscow," 5 pp, published in The Christian Science Monitor, no date; "Fairy Land in Hunger Land. Moscow's First State Theatre for Children," 7 pp, published in Shadowland, July, 1922, carbon copy. A collection of eight articles by Yarovoff on the Russian Theater, written for an American audience in 1922. Most of the articles were published through the auspices of Oliver Sayler, and the present manuscripts are the copies sent to him by Yarovoff. Sayler acknowledged Yarovoff in his first edition of Russian Theater [1922]: "it is only fair to state that my more dependable informant by correspondence has been Nikolai Yarovoff, artist and critic, who has served as my interpreter in Moscow on more than one occasion."WITH: YAROVOFF, NIKOLAI. 2 Autograph Manuscripts Signed and 2 Typescripts, 10 pp, c.1920-22, all for publication in the United States, comprising: "Anti-Religious Propaganda in Russia," 1 p manuscript, February 3, 1922, with masthead of The Atheist; "The Russian Peasant Industry (Notes on the Peasant Art Exhibition inMoscow)," 5 pp manuscript, February 13, 1922; "Men and Dogs," 2 pp typescript, c.1920; "How Do Russian Village Teachers Live?" 2 pp typescript, January 1922.
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