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...transports him so swiftly from place to place, as real power. He has ac cepted it as his own power. ... To at tain real power, of the mind, of the spirit, is a long slow process. Why should man go to all this trouble when he can so easily attain this vicarious power?" "It is a factual age, and in a factual age women will always rule. In the world of fact every woman has the advantage of me because she has something I cannot have . . . but let her come over into my male world, the world of fancy...
...Vanities are rococo. Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies are smart. And yet, in spite of his overpowering, unwholesome gaudiness. Earl Carroll is probably a better showman than Florenz Ziegfeld. When he puts on his annual durbar there is a spontaneity to its promotion which Producer Ziegfeld strives painfully to attain. One night last week a crowd choked Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to witness the most recent, most important mile stone in Producer Carroll's theatrical career. He was presenting the ninth annual Vanities in the newest, largest U. S. playhouse...
...indeterminism become the foundation of the philosophy of biology as they are of the philosophy of the physical world? Shall 'life' forever remain a word without an accurate definition? . . . Step by step one mystery of life after another is being revealed. Whether the human mind will ever attain complete and absolute knowledge of and complete mastery over life is not essential...
...mild, but what corruptions would their relaxation bring? They were peaceful, but by what machinery were their corruptions to be purged? What interests were to vivify a society so vast and uniform? What ideals were to ennoble it? What object, besides physical content, must a democratic continent aspire to attain? For the treatment of such questions, history required another century of experience...
...order, that the praise which must be showered on this production be tempered, it should be stated that it is not the equal of Pudovkin's earlier film. Only in the tremendous climax and several scattered moments does it attain the heights of the symphonic flow of visual imagery which was maintained through out "The End of St. Petersburg...