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...theory of eternal strife assumes a futuristic form as the Age of Science tempestuously follows its course to a "sane and practical" Utopia. Futility, the imperfection of mere humanity, the loss of individuality, and the desire for happiness all rebel against the omnipotence of science, and the final fade-out leaves with us the unanswered question: "The conquest of the universe--or nothing! What shall...
...arrival of the watered-down fit for Boston version of Tobacco Road, assailing it on grounds of rank indecency, and the very fact that it had been adjusted for the adolescent minds of the Hub city, the play which ran so long in New York will probably soon fade here. Crowded to the rafters on the first two nights by prurient sensation hunters, the theatre was only half filled on Friday, and unless a sudden renaissance is experienced, Henry Hull and Company had better make tracks elsewhere...
...producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
...peak one of the twelve brightest stars in the sky, it offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter, forlorn wraiths of the cosmos...
...even where melodrama and co-incidence reach their height one's very solid feeling of satisfaction with the book is not diminished. Any plot, good or bad, would fade into nothing beside the consummate skill of Santayana's character-delineation and the grandeur of his expression...