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Grumbled because they could not even watch the Indian Round Table Conference, held in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords from the balcony of that hall. Reason: the haughty Indian princes would not stomach that any spectator, even a peer of the realm, should sit on a higher level than themselves...
...well suited to music in the minor mood. There are basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that...
...17th Century lady. Mr. Lunt is imposing as the doughty Essex, who deeply resents his Sovereign's curtailment of his expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which he is forced to wade through-resembling the weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have...
...Naturally this attention to apparently picayune detail has very little importance per se, but in relation to the broader aspects of science which deal in theories and hypotheses it is invaluable. If science did not have this foundation of minute and detailed facts, it would pass over into the realm of romance where the imagination is uncontrolled...
...development of the motion picture has, curiously enough, been tied up with the evolution of its etymology. In the realm of entertainment, its first love, it has commonly been designated as "movie", "the silent screen" and finally as "talkie." As a dubious participator on the outer fringe of Art it bore somewhat proudly the name "cinema", with French embellishments. Happily harmonious in its simplicity, the word "film" has always distinguished the offspring of Edison in its cursory invasion of the laboratory...