GRIM SOVIET HUMOUR
Dramatist Accused of Being "Literary Czar" MOSCOW, May IT. A toueh of grim humour is added to the latest Soviet purge by the charge , against "Vladimir Kirshon, who was J .arrested in addition to those previously jcabled. • „ ' f It is alleged Kirshon, who is the most [popular dramatist in Soviet Russia and also manager of the Playwrights' Union, collected 4>000,000 roubles, representing- royalties on works of long■dead authors and distributed the money j among his henchmen. He is also accused of behaving "like sa literary czar, dispensing roubles and irations with a generous hand to favourites." Meanwhile, a union has been organisfed by writers' wives to protect their rights against immoral husbands and is demanding tbe investigation of authors' "scandalous lives."-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 8
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124GRIM SOVIET HUMOUR Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 8
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