Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High High Wind. Towering over Anacostia, D. C. to test a new climbing plane, the Navy's high flyer Apollo Soucek, holder of the U. S. altitude record (39,140 ft.) encountered a 60 m. p. h. wind at a height of six miles. Up and down he frisked to study its prevalent direction. It blew steadily from the west. Visionary. Apollo Soucek foresaw the day of multi-motored transports roaring out of the west at these heights, driven by this raging gale, across the continent in half the standard 30 hrs. now needed...
...Shubert Apollo--"After Dark." Reviewed in this issue...
...extremely difficult to pass judgment on an old-fashioned melodrama of the type of "After Dark", now playing at the Shubert Apollo, chiefly because standards of criticism have changed so greatly that for one whose theatre-going has all been in the present, so to speak, there are no comparisons on which to base an opinion. Hastily constructed standards will have to suffice...
...mural artists, the drawings form an unusual collection to add to the treasures of Harvard's art museum. Most of the drawings are the preliminary sketches for murals in the Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. One of the most beautiful drawings is that of Apollo in his chariot with the Hours, which forms the decoration over the staircase in the Museum of Fine Arts. Other splendid examples of Sargent's work are the sketches of the Danaides and the Winds, also used for decorations in the museum...
...Shubert-Apollo--"Her Friend the King", William Faversham handicapped by weak plot and lines...