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...Great Divorce, Author Lewis, who teaches medieval literature at Oxford, takes himself and a load of jostling, quarreling passengers from a twilit, drizzly city of endless streets to a fresh meadow at the foot of a cloudy mountain range. "The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world," Lewis warns. But the grey city, he realizes, was Hell; he and his bus-mates are spirits on an excursion. Damnation is not final; they may stay in Heaven if they choose...
Through the twilit Ligurian Sea, into that sea which Italians lately called Mare Nostrum, the Roma sailed with the companion battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto, six cruisers and several destroyers. From Taranto, the Italian base in the south, the older, smaller battleships Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria, two cruisers and a destroyer were sailing through the same darkness to the same destination: Malta...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
Deep in thought, Professor Albert Einstein, who planned to leave the U. S. this week, strolled across the twilit campus of California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. He did not at once understand why the tall palm trees had begun to dance crazily or why the students had begun running out of their dormitories. In Los Angeles, where crowds going home to dinner had complained of the sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices...
Genuine Chekhovians acquire an appetite for an atmosphere of twilit melancholy through which bewildered stoics make their weary way, ceaselessly confronted with frustration and despair. Nobody gets what he wants in Uncle Vanya. Michael Astrov, acted by Osgood Perkins (late editor of the Chicago Herald & Examiner in The Front Page), distinctly wants Lillian Gish, the second wife of an aged, selfish pedagog. With admirable restraint, her husband's brother-in-law, "Uncle Vanya" (Walter Connolly), also pursues Miss Gish as she floats about the stage attired in the costume of a pastel Gibson Girl. And although both Miss Gish...