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With the passing years the Slavs solidified in little communistic groups. Perhaps they were not naturally belligerent (not one of Mucha's paintings commemorates a deed of battle), but onslaughts of domineering Goths, the scorbutic spread of Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated. Westward they journeyed to Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity...
...tells how Siegfried's widow goes looking through a world of half-gods for someone who will avenge the murder of her husband. In settings like the metaphors of an epic poet the story moves to its climax in the hall of Attila, king of the earth, where the last of the Niebelungs sing their death-song under the burning roof. With a sound accompaniment this picture, the last made in the UFA studios before Hollywood companies bought up their talent, would be a novel and supreme form of grand opera...
...Babbit is sure that "Alexander Caesar, Attila, Charlemagne, th settlers of Manhattan, and the west" were actuated by the same urge which has recently raised prices in Florida. And it may be said that although Attila and John Doe stand for somewhat different methods of land improvement, it is substantially true that each followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings...
Among the younger Hungarian dramatists whose wares will Come to Broadway are Ladislaus Fazekas with Four Gentlemen in Dress Suits; Attila Orbok with The Comet; Ladislaus Fodor, whose Marguerite of Navarre will be called Successful Despite Himsclf; and Nicholas Vitez in whose Where Is the Drama? Leo Ditrichstein will star...
...Charles Martel, "the hammer of the Franks," who turned back the heathen hosts of Attila...