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have taken a fond farewell of the
present and slipped into the year 1960.
The piece is called "The Battle of the
8kies." A war is on between the United
States of Europe and the United States
of America which bringB forth a few of
the death-dealing devices that may be
expected to put in an appearance within
the next forty or one hundred years.
The airship and the radium gun will
(according to the "Hip" story) be the
terrors of future war.
Just now in the Hippodrome, however,
the Americans are the only ones to possess
the radium gun. When the airship
equipped with this annihllator descends on
the foreign city it is all over.
The light effects have been well worked
out, and the scene is highly interesting
and exciting, although hardly sensational.
Source:
Variety 12:2 (09/19/1908)