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Woven into a fantastic prophesy of the course of life in the next century, "Things to Come" offers a horse drench of the bold philosophy of H. G. Wells and a glimpse into the Wellsian Utopia: a thought-provoking experience...
...airplanes should throw a highly practical scare into contemporary audiences. The second portion of Things to Come contributes a reductio ad absurdum of Fascism which should cause it to be banned in Germany and Italy. The climax of the picture is an even more explicit description of a Wellsian Utopia than that foresighted author has ever divulged to his reading public. As a spectacle, Things to Come compares favorably with its Hollywood rivals, from Intolerance to The Crusades, but it differs from all predecessors in its class by demanding a cerebral rather than an emotional response. Its climax is reached...
PROFESSOR HAGGARD has written his history of the world--and viewing the world from the eyes of one predominantly interested in the position of the medicine man and the status of medicine in society it is a very interesting work. It makes no Wellsian pretensions at all-inclusiveness but strives rather to strike the high and essential points in the development of medicine through the ages to its present state. Dr. Haggard is not cramped by a sketchy knowledge of history, his facts are ever accurate and his general views concise and well-grounded. From Imhotep who started the ball...
...Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts. Of late his persona has been a little under the weather. To get his persona back on its feed he has written this highly Wellsian Experiment in Autobiography...
...stood for exciting tales-plausible narrations of improbable happenings. Last week readers who had encountered Author Wells only as a compiler of outlines-of-knowledge or a pamphleteering old World Conspirator, had a good chance to make his acquaintance as a young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet} had been reissued, looked forward to recapturing the excitement...