The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: Shakespeare and "Le Misanthrope" and "Georges Dandin"
by Moli=8Are.
Dramatic Theatre.--"Alexander I" by Merezhkovsky.
Theatre of Drama and Comedy.-- "Little Dorrit" by Dickens
and "The King's Barber" by Lunacharsky.
Besides these, other theatres were playing
K. R. (Konstantin Romanov), Ostrovsky, Potapenko,
Vinitchenko, etc. The two Studios of the Moscow Art
Theatre were playing "Rosmersholm" and a repertoire of
short plays. They, like the Art Theatre Company,
occasionally play in the suburban theatres when their place
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: places, and the leader of the wild-fowl blew his horn, as they
who in the fall had flown to the south flew, arrow-like,
northward again; when the buds swelled and the leaves burst forth
once more, and crocuses and then daffodils gleamed in the green
grass, like sparks and flames of gold.
With the spring came the out-door sports of the season; among
others that of ball--for boys were boys, and played at ball even
in those faraway days--a game called trap-ball. Even yet in some
parts of England it is played just as it was in Myles Falworth's
day, and enjoyed just as Myles and his friends enjoyed it.
So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant the game of
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