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...using the solar system as an observation station. After ten years of accumulating data, he gave it as his opinion last week that the Milky Way is traveling among its neighbor galaxies at a pace of 100 miles per second. Direction of movement is toward the constellation Draco, "The Dragon...
...hours, required 18 complete changes of scene, 34 major singers, a large chorus, 80 stage hands and technicians, an orchestra of 114, ten full beards, one horse. Richard Wagner's masterpiece contains practically every theatrical trick except Eliza crossing the ice-swimming Rhine maidens, a roaring dragon, a rainbow, galloping Valkyries, a Nibelung forge going full tilt, quantities of magic fire, and, at the end, the collapse in fire and flood of a castle full of gods...
...Metropolitan technicians-Master Mechanic Fred Hosli, Chief Electrician Jacob Buchter, Master of Properties Philip Crispano-work with the very best equipment, but except for child auditors the Siegfried dragon, for example, seems hardly worth the trouble. This beast requires the services of eight men-two inside it, two to operate the pulleys opening and closing its jaws, one to shoot steam from its mouth, one to shout its music through a megaphone backstage, an assistant conductor watching for the conductor's beat through a peephole, a prompter speaking the dragon's words from the score. It is still...
...DRAGON WAKES-Edgar Ansel Mowrer-Morrow...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously...