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Atkinson in Times Notes Stir Moscow Theater Talk
A satirical interview scene imagines Stalin and Molotov reading the New York Times theater notices by Atkinson. The dialogue riffs on reviews of a play like Tobacco Road and the Moscow reaction, with jokes about quotes, ads, bans, and critics. The piece ends with Curtain.
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Brooks Atkinson
New York “Times
Tweedy
Chiuncking
Marcow
Times
Yewsie
Brook
Wewre
Tobacco Road
Brooks
Russia
Soviet Union
Stalin
Molotov
Kremlin
New York
Atkinson
Thorez
Paris
I/Wumanite
Mousik
Ier
Moscow
ILE
Trotsky
Olsen and
Joanson
Ural Mountains
Truman
Shuberts
Boston
Comrade
Curtain
Billy Rose