Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour flight the beautiful silver dirigible ZR-1 flew over three states and gave Newark, New Brunswick, Camden, Philadelphia and New York an opportunity to see this marvel of American engineering skill. The Navy's tests so far have been entirely successful; all flights are made with the greatest caution and care. But there is no lack of ambitious work to come. Collection of data for the purposes of commercial airship navigation, flights to the North Pole, trips around the world, the surveying of hitherto inaccessible regions are in store for the airship skipper and his lucky crew...
...shadows of the past a scenery city has been reared which is a marvel of accurate detail. The city, the customs, the clothes, the personages are on parade. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Brevoort, John Jacob Astor look from the screen at their descendants in the audience. The climax comes when a reconstructed Robert Fulton steams away upon its memorable trial trip, which is to sweep the seas of sailing ships...
...still sings with all of his great mastery of style and interpretation. Our own Scotti of the Metropolitan Opera House is no callow youth, neither is Didur nor De Lucca nor Rothier. But these fellows are baritones and bassos, who are notable for being devils hard to kill. The marvel of Agostini's case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died, was esteemed a wonder because he had a voice left at that age, although it had sunk to a high baritone...
...have not noticed that The Sea-Hawk is a reprint; but almost all have accorded it the favor due an engaging romance. The New York Tribune speaks of the "gorgeous plot"; the Boston Herald names it " a colorful and dramatic tale "; the Boston Transcript praises it highly as " a marvel of its kind...
...This is another play, like Johannes Kreisler, in the course of which innumerable scenes come popping out at you from all over the stage. They are expressionistic scenes, too, looking like nothing in heaven or earth except dreams of the central character-whose point of view is something to marvel...