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Imagination!, v. 1, issue 6, whole no. 6, March 1938
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12 [Text art of 2s and 0s spelling out the word "200".] Prizewon Protetic Play from Europe -- Atmostericly editd ("21st Century Spelng") by "4SJ" from th originl review by MRS [Signed Collis Kerlay] FORWARD: Phantasy footlite formulas are so scarce that when the legitimate stage on rare occasions concerns itself with the scienti-fictional I'm certain to attend. Several other "Little Theatre" scien-thrillers I've seen are "The Living Lie", & "The Soul Surgeon" at the Spotlite, Cinema City. Present production, enacted at the Theatre Workshop/Hollywood, as local fans would know, was the most futuristic of the 3... Play opens with Prolog in All Nations' Asembly Hall. Here a Pres, Speakr & a Mastr Scientist review horendous histry th precedng 1/2 century: Twas in 1954 the teribl 2d World War broke out, th White Races' "Aerial War" that atackt its men, women & childrn from th stratostere, loosng death & dstruction to their land til they had to buro deep into th earth & dvise oxygen aparatus to escape burstng bom & lethal gas of suicidal surface. When conflict endd they stayd in their beehive Subterania, there creatng egshaped uncrushabl cars & in othr branchs greatly progrest in Science-&-Invention's Arts. But th Yelo Races had conservd their energs while Whites weakend emselvs; & finaly, feeling superior, Yelos struck. Folly fantastic...3d World War was lost by All: Fanatic or coerced scientists separated air's elemnts makng its breath poisn to planet's ntire peopl! Thus th Asembly now is met in undrtakng imperativ: To end War FOREVER! For War has bcom too terific -- anothr outbreak & Humanity's anihilation is inevitabl! Th Mastr Scientist speaks. In esence says: "This my conclusion War's inposibl to outlaw til...Man himself is made indestructibl! Only when he no longr can b killd can murdrous conflict cease." He then reveals his noledg of an xperimnt tord this xact and, already undrway. Asembly's intrestd & televisionl contact establisht with Ocean Island #7 where youthful scientist Dirk Thane reports his progres on creation Imortaly Eternaly Yung Woman -- his wife. Asembly unanimously agrees to sponsr scientist. Act I. Midocean rock island lab, television-relay base. On pedastl bathed in ambr lite yung woman stands in flowng diafanous dres. Copr coils ncircl her rist from which wires run to electricl aparatus. She almost's xhaustd from tirng Imortalizng Xperimnts. Her husbnd revivifys her nvisionng her superlife to come. Shortly aftr th Mastr Scientist, yung xperimntr's old instructr, arives on island. Thane xplains his theory to him: "Individual must die y: To giv way to progeny. Only Race is imortl. But if th perpetuatng power coud b isolated & concentrated in individual..." That's what he's been working on. "Then woud b no need for reproduction. Each'd liv on, last its kind." A Delegate arives & aftr inspectng lab leavs to strol in adjoinng
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12 [Text art of 2s and 0s spelling out the word "200".] Prizewon Protetic Play from Europe -- Atmostericly editd ("21st Century Spelng") by "4SJ" from th originl review by MRS [Signed Collis Kerlay] FORWARD: Phantasy footlite formulas are so scarce that when the legitimate stage on rare occasions concerns itself with the scienti-fictional I'm certain to attend. Several other "Little Theatre" scien-thrillers I've seen are "The Living Lie", & "The Soul Surgeon" at the Spotlite, Cinema City. Present production, enacted at the Theatre Workshop/Hollywood, as local fans would know, was the most futuristic of the 3... Play opens with Prolog in All Nations' Asembly Hall. Here a Pres, Speakr & a Mastr Scientist review horendous histry th precedng 1/2 century: Twas in 1954 the teribl 2d World War broke out, th White Races' "Aerial War" that atackt its men, women & childrn from th stratostere, loosng death & dstruction to their land til they had to buro deep into th earth & dvise oxygen aparatus to escape burstng bom & lethal gas of suicidal surface. When conflict endd they stayd in their beehive Subterania, there creatng egshaped uncrushabl cars & in othr branchs greatly progrest in Science-&-Invention's Arts. But th Yelo Races had conservd their energs while Whites weakend emselvs; & finaly, feeling superior, Yelos struck. Folly fantastic...3d World War was lost by All: Fanatic or coerced scientists separated air's elemnts makng its breath poisn to planet's ntire peopl! Thus th Asembly now is met in undrtakng imperativ: To end War FOREVER! For War has bcom too terific -- anothr outbreak & Humanity's anihilation is inevitabl! Th Mastr Scientist speaks. In esence says: "This my conclusion War's inposibl to outlaw til...Man himself is made indestructibl! Only when he no longr can b killd can murdrous conflict cease." He then reveals his noledg of an xperimnt tord this xact and, already undrway. Asembly's intrestd & televisionl contact establisht with Ocean Island #7 where youthful scientist Dirk Thane reports his progres on creation Imortaly Eternaly Yung Woman -- his wife. Asembly unanimously agrees to sponsr scientist. Act I. Midocean rock island lab, television-relay base. On pedastl bathed in ambr lite yung woman stands in flowng diafanous dres. Copr coils ncircl her rist from which wires run to electricl aparatus. She almost's xhaustd from tirng Imortalizng Xperimnts. Her husbnd revivifys her nvisionng her superlife to come. Shortly aftr th Mastr Scientist, yung xperimntr's old instructr, arives on island. Thane xplains his theory to him: "Individual must die y: To giv way to progeny. Only Race is imortl. But if th perpetuatng power coud b isolated & concentrated in individual..." That's what he's been working on. "Then woud b no need for reproduction. Each'd liv on, last its kind." A Delegate arives & aftr inspectng lab leavs to strol in adjoinng
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