CAN ANY GOOD THING COME FROM RUSSIA?
BY SINBAD. “ Can any good thing come from | Russia?” it once was our custom to ! say, the Bolsheviks there seem to usher, a season of blood in to-day; • the doings of Reds wild and fearsome, like Trotsky or maybe Lenin, had shocked us for oft did we hear some strange tales of the things that had been. In fact, to a fair honest critic, things there seemed precarious some, and hence we shunned things Muscovitic, and all that from Russia had come; in i fact you could not show a cove a j thing Russian that e’er charmed | his eyes, but now to our shore •: comes Pavlova and we must our judgment revise. In eminence terpischorean, she has not at present a peer, so we are due shortly to see an artistic performance, it’s clear. If I had a guinea to buy , one, I’d make for an -orchestral j seat, my salary isn’t a high one, so I *’ll make the gods my retreat,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17877, 19 June 1926, Page 1
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