Five thousand Russians paid $6,000 to hear famed Menshevik* Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, onetime Russian Dictator, speak at the Century Theatre, Manhattan. Amid furious excitement a half-ton bronze candelabra was uprooted and flung down in the lobby by the sheer pressure of the crowd. Bolsheviks† yelled. Tsarists brandished canes. Both factions detest M. Kerensky because he is more radical than the Tsarists and less radical than the Bolsheviks. . . .
Soon a pretty Tsarist girl, who has Americanized her lame into "Miss Catherine Bary" and became a designer, mounted the stage with a...
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