Evening star., 1948-09-19

spent days and weeks striving to acquire rough manner. ~
smoked, drank. copied masculine gestures and even ert,
their vocabularies with pgoetarian curses
The pendulum swung too far With the consolidation a.
Soviet power and period Of stahilzatn came h,,- e
some of the things destroyed in the Revolution yesrnnx f
the lost amenities for the life beautiful" Ths WA rive, H.
stamp of official approval in 1885, when Stain .nnrmced.
Life has become better. life has become aya, comr.dea
Thus sancthed the quest for gracious living sweut the
nation Soviet girls dyed their hair shan hsasy veIpv
BeedaIed Red Amy officers trunged the beauty shou az
the Hotel Meropo'e in Moscow for their "pemanents"
eesa HGanness As> cas,>
HERE was an unprecedented demand for luxury fe.ne
Peasant girls made rush for silk sockines unev,r .rd
dresses creating shortage that bordzed On the tr,e
Even Stains ect could not cope with the bottIeek IN
Soviet light industry The quantity Of consumer soode mo-
duoed IN the Soviet Union large since most Of the
oountys resources went toward building up industrial v,r
potential Tho consumer goods moreover poor In
quality, emphasizing the superiority Of tho few thn.,
that reached the markets from abroad.
Other amenities however. less disturbing the nations
economy. could be had. Newspapers began to criticize not
only the insufficient supply of forks knives and spoon. in rea
taants and factory cantee but also the shockngy xes
"'y manners of both walters and clients The most popular
Soviet huosts of their time the late M and Petrov caused
sensation after their return from trip to the United Staes
III ]AS HAuSe uuS ny tnen unqudnneQ praise OF Amerca's
great god Service Russia began accept the novel idea that
the customer might occasionally be right
Next. craze for Western style dancing spread through the
land Encouraged by the leaders, practically every large ofe
and factory m the cities and every serepecne collective
farm clubhouse dancing circles for people Of an apes
The larger clubs and concert halls with one another for
the services of jazz bands Motion picture theates featured
as an added attraction modern Western dances onehalf
hour before the showing of the film. Red Army men voted
Leonid Utesov the top jazz-band leader of the nation
He HssAsa . Shave
NAEEK-ToczEEK dancing doubtless influenced masculine
hsute habits Also and again, the Kreln set the mode
When first came to Moscow in 1885, the legend was still re
of how Lazar Kaganovch, Stains chief Industrial trouble
shooter and then Russas railway czar re9manded iph
railway official for not having shaved and changed his st
before rushing to the chiefs Office from the station
Thus family but irrevocaby fear of Five O'clock
Shadow made its appearance in the brave new world
of the Soviets.
The put end to the trend and also to the po
duction OF luxury items altogether the yearning
for them Life became gmmer and popular morality had to
conform Jazz was and still in the doghouse official sane
ton moved by stern nationaisn reserved exclusively
for folk music and folk dancing Good could hardly
survive the brutal reality of that era.
But now the And the urge for fine clothes
varied food hvable apartments good all the
amenities of civilized living stronger Russia than ever
The Russians are tired of sacrifice.
For two decades the Soviet people exoted by their
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