Word: origins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the subjects to be discussed are the origin of the Earth and its age, "The Stuff that Stars are Made Of," "Life in Other Worlds," "Comets, Eclipses, the Use of Telescopes," and "Beyond the Milky...
...Dark Angel. It was never satisfactorily explained last spring why the play (TIME, Feb. 23, THE THEATRE) from which this picture had its origin was unsuccessful. Possibly because the central character was a soldier blinded in the War, people were disinclined to favor it. It was, in any event, agreed to be an excellent play and has made an even more excellent movie. This blinded soldier fails to report to his fiancee his return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman...
...finds no difficulty in accepting the theory of evolution, and believes that the apparent contradictions in the Bible to any such theory can be explained with simplicity. He believes that the only significance of such a work as Genesis is to present the spiritual truth about God and the origin of the universe, and that it should be regarded as a textbook of biology. He goes on to say, in the report of his evidence given at Dayton...
Among the subjects considered in English 15 will be the Inn yard performances and their influence on English dramaturgy, the physical conditions of the early public theatres, the origin and characteristic of the Elizabethan "private" playhouse, the influence of the "decor simultane" on early court staging, the principles of early dramatic collaboration and stage lighting. Mr. Lawrence will then take up its rise and progress from 1590 to 1800, the principles of early prompt-book making, early playgoing customs, the mystery of the Restoration procenian doors, and the characteristics of Elizabethan acting...
...Richmond, Va., of a Patriotic Welfare Committee which vowed to do battle this fall for a bill in the Virginia legislature similar to that lately passed in Tennessee and that lately defeated in Georgia-a bill to forbid the teaching, in state-supported schools, of any theory of the origin of man "in conflict with the Bible...