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...Brothers Karamazov, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated. They played Caprice in Manhattan and London, returned to Manhattan for Meteor, did Maxwell Anderson's turgid Elizabeth the Queen, then swung into the highly successful Reunion in Vienna. Following the road tour of Reunion in Vienna, the Lunts parted for a time from the Theatre Guild...
...Nininger's troubles is that most people who see a brilliant fireball are so excited that their subsequent testimony Is likely to be highly inaccurate. He himself has learned to sight meteor paths with extraordinary precision. On one occasion he sighted a fireball, marked out its probable course by drawing a line on a map. This line passed through the very field in which the meteorite, a splendid 820-pounder, was located a month later...
What the Vatican is to Catholics, the Ganges to Hindus and Fujiyama to Japanese, a small black meteor head-high in the southeast corner of a rough stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey...
When Landon is elected, the College will be informed of the event by the appearance of a meteor in the western sky describing an are from south to north, following which an American flag will descend. If Roosevelt should win, the flag will be thrown away...
...There was a comet when Caesar died," he recalls. The comet turns out to be only a meteor. "We shall have to die without a comet," muses Napoleon Bonaparte. The play ends with Marchand reading to him from the wars of Hannibal...