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...Tunnels fifty miles in length are not built in a day, but it seems more and more probable that they will sometime be as familiar as the Brooklyn Bridge is now. Although man may never realize Jules Verne's imaginative story of a "Journey to the Center of the Earth", he may succeed in the first stage of it. "Air" has been "conquered" recently, "Water" long ago, but it remains for the engineers of the future to complete the conquest of "Earth...
...wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West; and if he had he would never have entrusted himself to a tractor as a means of locomotion. Phineas had a sense of the proprieties...
...English town criers used to call, "No lazar nor infecte paupers or poor shall come within the town", a delegation of unemployed would never have come within the town gate, let alone seen the king. Then all good English citizens thought the poor man the scum of the earth and would sing, "Rattle his bones over the stones": he's only a pauper whom nobody owns," and think nothing more...
...obviously the work of a playwright who sees little or no hope for man in his present state of society. It is bitter, deeply so in parts, and tries at every turn to focus the listener's attention on the utter futility of Man's days on earth, and the frailty of his very work. With this as the dominant note, one might expect a Maeterlinck gloom to pervade the whole, but such is not the case. Andreyev was fortunately gifted with a unique sense of humor--almost Rabelaisian at times, and this flashes cheerfully forth at opportune moments. More...
...from Earth", the show chosen by the Princeton Triangle Club for its presentation this year. Will have its initial performance in Wilmington. Delaware, on December 1S. The club will tour the South during the holidays, finishing in New York on January...