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Amid this apparent demonstration of loyalty by all classes 1,000 "doves of peace" (trained army carrier pigeons) were released by order of Marshal Pilsudski and wheeled in three great circles above the square. It was apparent that the Marshal retains his heroic stature in the hearts of his people. By way of showing that he is both a Pole and a true cosmopolitan he appointed last week Mlle. Teiko Kiwa, first Japanese to sing the role of Madame Butterfly at the Polish National Opera, to assist President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland in unveiling a statue of Chopin* close...
John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
Neither is the U. S. Navy the heroic myth of the days of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard, of Farragut in Mobile...
...Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature...
...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...