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Chanticleer, v. 1, issue 3, December 1945
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widner -- warner -- karden -- spencer: Reviews for Youse THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS - C. C. Furnas - Reynal & Hitchcock - New York. Here is a book which I am astonished hasn't been mentioned before in imaginist circles, since it was published in 1936. I found it in the Post Library at Ft. Devens, and it's a must for all fen, especially the "inner circle". It's non-fiction, and the author is prof of Chemengineering at Yale. Unfortunately I was unable to read all of it before I was shipped, but a hurried perusal, and a reading of the first 100 pages unearthed a lot of interesting stuff. In brief it's a summary of what science hasn't done, but what it myt be expected to do in the next century. It actually makes one feel medieval to realize how little we really know about things. Take medicine, for instance. The sulfa drugs and penicillin are the first really curative agents man has discovered to work against our heaviest diseases. True, we have conquered smallpox, bubonic plague, etc, but only by the negative methods of inoculations and vaccines. They are only preventative. The rest of the book goes on in the same vein to cover the other branches of science, and show that we are really only at the frontier of knowledge.There are interjections of dry wit here and there which enliven the text and provide relief from the more technical discussions. Altogether, it's right up your alley, imists, and opens more enthralling vistas than the average stf yarn, becoz it is fact, not fancy.Hily recommended. --Art Widner THE BLUE BIRD - Marucie Maeterlinck. This is one of those books which ever instinct within me revolted from reading, or even purchasing, when I saw it on a second-hand book dealer's ten cent shelf. The fact that Shirley Temple had appeared in a picture based on the play was responsible for my aversion; happily, like a good little superman, I overcame such prejudice, bought the book, read it, and am now wildly enthusiastic. If ever something cried out for the hands of Walt Disney, this is it. Entitled by the author "A Fairy Play in Six Acts", it is quite obviously impossible of production on a suitable scale in the ordinary theatre, and I think that animated cartoons would be a far superior medium to an elaborate flesh-and blood production if it were to be done the right way in Hollywood. For instance who but Disney could produce adequately the demand of this stage direction?--: "Then, from all the gaping tombs, there rises gradually an efflorescence at first frail and timid, like steam; then white and virginal and more and more tufty, more and more tall and plentiful and marvellous. Little by little irresistably, it transforms the graveyard into a sort of fairy-like and nuptial garden, over which rise the first rays of the dawn. The dew glitters, the flowers open their blooms, the wind murmurs in the leaves, the bees hum, the birds
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widner -- warner -- karden -- spencer: Reviews for Youse THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS - C. C. Furnas - Reynal & Hitchcock - New York. Here is a book which I am astonished hasn't been mentioned before in imaginist circles, since it was published in 1936. I found it in the Post Library at Ft. Devens, and it's a must for all fen, especially the "inner circle". It's non-fiction, and the author is prof of Chemengineering at Yale. Unfortunately I was unable to read all of it before I was shipped, but a hurried perusal, and a reading of the first 100 pages unearthed a lot of interesting stuff. In brief it's a summary of what science hasn't done, but what it myt be expected to do in the next century. It actually makes one feel medieval to realize how little we really know about things. Take medicine, for instance. The sulfa drugs and penicillin are the first really curative agents man has discovered to work against our heaviest diseases. True, we have conquered smallpox, bubonic plague, etc, but only by the negative methods of inoculations and vaccines. They are only preventative. The rest of the book goes on in the same vein to cover the other branches of science, and show that we are really only at the frontier of knowledge.There are interjections of dry wit here and there which enliven the text and provide relief from the more technical discussions. Altogether, it's right up your alley, imists, and opens more enthralling vistas than the average stf yarn, becoz it is fact, not fancy.Hily recommended. --Art Widner THE BLUE BIRD - Marucie Maeterlinck. This is one of those books which ever instinct within me revolted from reading, or even purchasing, when I saw it on a second-hand book dealer's ten cent shelf. The fact that Shirley Temple had appeared in a picture based on the play was responsible for my aversion; happily, like a good little superman, I overcame such prejudice, bought the book, read it, and am now wildly enthusiastic. If ever something cried out for the hands of Walt Disney, this is it. Entitled by the author "A Fairy Play in Six Acts", it is quite obviously impossible of production on a suitable scale in the ordinary theatre, and I think that animated cartoons would be a far superior medium to an elaborate flesh-and blood production if it were to be done the right way in Hollywood. For instance who but Disney could produce adequately the demand of this stage direction?--: "Then, from all the gaping tombs, there rises gradually an efflorescence at first frail and timid, like steam; then white and virginal and more and more tufty, more and more tall and plentiful and marvellous. Little by little irresistably, it transforms the graveyard into a sort of fairy-like and nuptial garden, over which rise the first rays of the dawn. The dew glitters, the flowers open their blooms, the wind murmurs in the leaves, the bees hum, the birds
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