The Old Vic Company in 'The Russians ', a new play by Konstantin Simonov , adapted by Tyrone Guthrie from the translation by Gerard Shelley , now running af the Play-house under the .direction of Tyrone -Guthrie, with Franklin Dyall , Michael Golden , Arthur Hamblin , Russell Thorndike , Olga Lindo , Freida Jackson , Rosalind Atkinson , Ruth Dunning , and other- member* of the Old Vic Company. Radio adaptation and production by Mary Hope Allen. The action of the play takes place on the Southern Front in Russia in the autumn of 1941.