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...Eugene O'Neill had thought of it first, the theme of "The Sacred Flame," now at the Peabody Playhouse, would have been tortured into a drama of epic grandcur. It has all the essentials of an O'Neill magnum opus; there's murder, and adultery, and starved sexuality, and problems of passion galore. It might very well have been worked up by America's foremost tragedian into a magnificent scream-fest, with an hour out for supper and a year's run on Broadway...
...fortunately O'Neill was in the bathtub when the angel of light came around looking for a playwright to write "The Sacred Flame," so the modest angel alighted gracefully on the somewhat rounded shoulders of Somerset Maugham, and whispered in his ample ear her idea for a great tragedy...
Other books: Rivers to the Sea, Flame...
...more spectacular career. Shortly after beginning duty at Selfridge Field, Mich, in 1927 he landed a new-type pursuit plane which he was testing, got out, left the engine running. A brother officer took it up. Hardly had the ship gained altitude when it burst into flame. The officer died. A year later Lieut. Woodring flew with the First Pursuit Group on a goodwill tour of Canada. In a formation take-off his plane collided with another, killed its pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First...
...made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly the value...