Moscow's Harvard Man

A famed U. S. citizen buried in Moscow's Red Square is Communist John Reed, Harvard 1910 (Socialist Heywood Broun's class). Lustily bellowing last week in the former Moscow Imperial Opera House, a Soviet cast rehearsed John Reed, a new opera freely biographical, highly revolutionary. In the cast sang John Reed's widow Authoress Louise Bryant, originally a Miss Moen.

The new opera does not cover Hero Reed's early career as Red reporter,

Provincetown player, U. S. correspondent with Pancho Villa, Wartime pacifist (expelled from the Harvard Club of New York in 1918), appointed first Soviet Consul in New York City--appointed by Trotsky, rejected by the U. S. State Department.

The opera deals with ten days of Reporter Reed's life, days he spent in Russia watching the Kerensky regime's fall, days he reported in his book Ten Days that Shook the World for which Red Dictator Lenin personally penned a preface.

With John Reed in the opera is another lusty character, his friend. William ("Wild Bill") Shatov, the U. S. Communist who built the Soviet "Turksih Railroad" (TIME, June 9).

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