Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumph: The Henchman, they said was more than the greatest U. S. opera; it took rank with the great music of the world. Though Composer Taylor showed traces of Wagnerian influence, his music held enough ingenuous wealth to need no comparison, to point to far greater possibilities of creation...
...this Russian film's production at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse comes as a surprise to natives who grumble about "foreign invaders." It was made in 1918, when Russia had just entered the turmoil of social reconstruction and film studios, in consequence, were crippled. Several years after its creation, the Director, M. Nelidov, fled to the U. S., sought occupation for his talent, found only a $20-a-week job in a bank. Cinema magnates, when they granted interviews, asked for samples of his work. He could offer nothing, because the Socialist Party in the U. S., owners...
Four distinguished gentlemen of the Supreme Court of Tennessee finally got around to a decision in the case of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, willful violator of the local statute against teaching in state-supported schools "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible . . ." Only a handful of newsgatherers and curious public was present in the Nashville courtroom. The Court had had two sittings since it received the Scopes appeal, a year ago. In the decision handed down last week was a phrase that suggested state pride as a reason...
...bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application"; that therefore the bill "violates the first essential of due process of law." There are eight Biblical versions of "the story of the Divine Creation," some of them quite contradictory...
...play. This silent record is conclusive. Against it, no matter how honest they are, flimsy lists of incidents like Hubbard's; based on circumstantial and partial evidence, cannot stand up. It is easy to refute them as it is to make them. The only purpose they serve is the creation of further animosities and heated argument...