ABSTRACT
The Russian Players returned to Chekhov last night in their repertory season at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre. The piece was ‘Ivanoff’, a play employing the rustic chivalry and country manners of that dramatist's ‘The Cherry Orchard’. Yet one found a piece not nearly so smooth and effortless as Chekhov's latter play. Last night he rang the curtain down on the spectacle of a wife fainting to discover a neighbour's buxom daughter in her husband's arms. And to close the piece he solved his problem by recourse to a pistol shot and a suicide, a device that is no solution at all and yet is one that, Mr. Galsworthy will tell you, never fails to end a play.
