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Anathema. Like most Russian plays, Anathema is a plunge into the basic mysteries and contradictions of life, but Andreyev (author of last season's Theatre Guild success, He Who Gets Slapped) works with symbolized, metaphysical ideas instead of with the raw material of actual life from which Chekov and Gorky draw...
...play is, in a curious way, a combination of some of the basic legends of literature. There is the Faust motif in David's brief hour of the pleasure of giving which will cease when the last kopeck is gone; there is the Job motif in the curse that he suffers; there is a touch of Milton's Satan in the heroic defiance of Anathema; there is a strong suggestion of Stephen in the stoning of a Christlike man by the people "who know not what they...
...study of the fundamental unit of living human protoplasm and its functions-a goal at which biologists have been aiming for years. Experiments are being conducted with minute eggs cut in two, to see whether each half will grow. The effects of various toxins and bacteria on the basic cell may be investigated with far-reaching significance to human welfare...
...recent general wage advance in the textile industry is a case in point. As business continues to improve wage scales will rise in other basic industries. Political experts in the daily press declare that the leaders of both major parties are too shrewd and practical to make class conflict an issue in election campaigns. The probability of alienating the 5,000,000 organized labor votes in the country is too great...
...great significance to the common fear of coming inflation is a table of stocks of basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood pulp, skins, leather, cotton, lamb. Larger stocks were reported in crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, beef, pork. Until stocks of commodities generally increase, it may be concluded that consumption is keeping pace with production, and that in consequence inflation is not yet upon...