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Roger Bloomer. This is another play, like Johannes Kreisler, in the course of which innumerable scenes come popping out at you from all over the stage. They are expressionistic scenes, too, looking like nothing in heaven or earth except dreams of the central character-whose point of view is something to marvel...
...Since the stars that suddenly become twice as brilliant are supposed to be in about the same stage of development as our sun, the latter too might at any time flare up as the stars have done; and if it did, the intense heat would consume everything on earth as fiercely as an acetyline torch licks up a few blades of grass. This unpleasant assumption is based on mere conjecture. It is a known fact, however, that these variable stars eventually drop back to their original magnitude or brilliancy...
...refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted to it by the rotation of the earth...
...cars, where the strike breakers and guards have intrenched themselves. But the beleaguered defenders are equipped with machine guns and three union miners are riddled early in the action. Night falls and the besiegers creep closer-to within forty yards of the enemy. They crouch behind a parapet of earth thrown up by a steam-shovel and wait for daylight to finish their bloody work...
...other movements was emphasized by Mr. C. R. Ashbee of King's College, Cambridge, in a lecture at Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. As the chief characteristic of the movement as a whole he gave Keats' famous quotation: "Beauty is Truth, Truth, Beauty; that is all we know on earth and all we need to know...