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Vladimir Nabokov. A FORGOTTEN POET
er on his knee, began to check the figures which were being mentioned. Then the granddaughter of Perov's sister appeared for a moment on the stage. The organizers had had some trouble with this item of the program since the person in question, a fat, popeyed, wax-pale young woman, was being treated for melancholia in a home for mental patients. With twisted mouth and all dressed up in pathetic pink, she was shown to the audience for a moment and then whisked back into the firm hands of a buxom woman delegated by the home. When Yermakov, who in those days was the darling of theatergoers, a kind of beau tenor in terms of the drama, began delivering in his chocolate-cream voice the Prince's spe