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...Maude Adams was one of the first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced in the Greek Temple of Berkeley, California, out of door stage of the University of California. Thus the fear of commercialism, natural suspicion when the stage touches...
...Taurus. Unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. Under this sign were born . . . Sir James M. Barrie, W. G. Marconi, . . . William Shakespeare...
...Taurus (bull), Apr. 21 to May 21, governed by Venus. The landed gentry and the contented plowman are typical Taurus folk. They are unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. They make good friends and good homes. Some of them will become lazy and sensual. They are sturdy of body and should beware of heart and throat diseases. Under this sign were born Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Sir James Matthew Barrie, Sigmund Freud, Christopher Morley, William Guglielmo Marconi, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Shakespeare...
With the approach of summer we lose, to be sure, some of the most brilliant constellations of the northern skies: notably, Orion, Taurus, Gemini, and Ganis Major; but, if the skies of summer are less brilliant they are not less interesting. High up in the north is the "dipper", the catch figure of Ursa Major chased by the huntsman Bootes. The brightest star of Bootes is Arcturus, found by following the bend of the handle of the "dipper" to the eastward. Arcturus is one of the few stars whose diameter has actually been measured, although, like all "fixed stars...
...things, however, seem well established as a result of study of both proper motions and radial velocities. These are: (1) the motion of the sun in space above mentioned; (2) the common motion of certain groups or clusters of stars, the two most notable examples of which are the Taurus and the Ursa Major groups; and (3) leaving the sun's motion out of account, the vast majority of stars appear to be streaming in one or the other of two opposite directions, as though two gigantic clusters of stars were passing each other in space, the distances between individuals...