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...specially constructed cameras were made,--the diameter of the lens being five inches and the focal length 15 feet. These cameras had refracting lenses and were pointed directly at the point in the sky where the eclipse would occur. This avoided any distortions due to expanding and contracting mirrors. The photographic plates were of plate glass and were 17 inches square. The temperate climate of Australia further facilitated matters...
...there was still quality of beauty, and appeal to her. With the Moscow Art Theatre, as one expected, the Luka and the Nastya are but parts in a large and wonderful cast. In the American theatre and even in the Yiddish Art Theatre, the tendency was to make them focal, to play for the star. A perfect cast in almost every case was that of Saturday afternoon. Ivan Lasareff as the actor, Giorgi Burdzhaloff as Kostilyoff, Vera Pashennaya as his wife, and Nina Litovtseva as Anna created unforgetably fine characterizations. The Pepel of Peter Baksheieff, while it was exceptional...
...home, only to have it flooded by the onrush of the water which destroyed towns and valleys and hills at the birth of the great Croton water system above New York City. It is the romance of this great engineering feat that led Mr. Hughes to make it the focal point of his novel. Flooded towns, broken walls, rushing waters! What a movie...
...discover the focal point of literary life in Chicago, that literary center of the middle-west, some say, indeed, of America, is a difficult task. Perhaps it is at the White Paper Club, where one finds genial Emerson Hough, active, white-haired, forward-looking rather than given to reminiscing, planning a fishing trip with enthusiasm! There is the office of Poetry, where sits the discoverer of many renowned American poets, Harriet Munroe, and where one may occasionally encounter Henry B. Fuller, one of the quietest and most significant figures in the progress of American letters. There is the University...
...Carl Sandburg is the focal point of Chicago literary life. He breathes Chicago. He is Chicago. If you would understand that banging, sweeping city with its stockyards and its shining lakefront, read The Windy City. No poem, perhaps, ever epitomized a city so successfully. Sandburg is tall, stooping, quiet, his voice, hesitant and booming. To explore Chicago streets with Sandburg on a summer day is to learn the spirit of the town...