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...peak and made 1935 the second biggest truck year in U. S. history. The trend to lighter trucks, however, has reduced dollar volume, which was more than 30% below 1929. Government spending boosted sales, but the prime cause for the truck makers' burst of speed was the spark plug of general business recovery...
...rapidly accelerating movement which aims to breathe the spark of living production into the library-bound theatre of Henrik Ibsen made its first local manifestation last week when Eva Le Gallienne presented "Rosmersholm." Now the eminent Alla Nazimova has added the bright flame of her talent to this Ibsen revivification by offering "Ghosts" for a two weeks run at the Colonial Theatre. The fame of the work renders superfluous any detailed analysis of its individual characteristics. A more interesting question is that of Ibsen's place in the modern theatre as revealed in this excellent production...
...adventuresome spirit, for dauntless courage. The world of which I am speaking is just finding itself. Torn by doubts and uncertainty, by unemployment and financial disaster, it is awakening to the fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts of thousands of your followers that they, too, may follow you into the land where prejudice, greed, hatred, pride and fear are unknown-into the Kingdom of Heaven...
...certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more successful with Vronsky, although the part was loss...
...spark for the old fellow is gone. And even as the poet in his famous ode on immortality asks what has become of the freshness of that dream which appareled the earth so beautifully, the Vagabond wonders,--as he regrets the passing--what has become of his youthful love for a poet whom he followed at one time so zealously...