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That sprung the ballyhoo. And from around this mundane sphere...
Renaud knows his theatre, a sphere which the World has long sought to reflect with brilliance. Fifteen years ago, while freelancing in .New York, he wrote an article for Harper's on the thesis that there were "Too Many Theaters." In gathering his material he had occasion to interview E. F. Albee, famed theatrical operator. The upshot of their talk was that Renaud went to Philadelphia for a while as manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House. He tried his hand at writing plays. Several were produced, including Betty Behave (Jane Cowl...
...formation of such a society would be of little interest if there were any place in Cambridge, or even in Boston, which filled such a position, but with none in existence it opens and entirely new sphere of activity. There was a time when men concentrating in Fine Arts might complete a course of undergraduate study without opportunity for seeing any large number of original works. That time has passed with two of the best permanent collections in the country situated in Boston, and with the growth of the Fogg Art Museum, but in the field of contemporary work...
Ecuador. Day and night are always of approximately equal length in Ecuador, for it lies astride the equator. The ruling class is of pure Spanish blood, proud and enervated. In consequence almost half the territory which is legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly...
...Beard must be given the credit for the vision which produced the above symposium, in which many others than have been commented upon, have spread the sphere of the present day before us. It asks or receives nothing, but in doing thus, it inspires a totally different and individual conception, aside from the traditional creeds, of the prevailing mode among such as "us moderns...