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...Roman Catholics a novena is an act of faith which is performed by saying nine prayers or series of prayers, usually in hope of gaining special material or spiritual rewards. A perpetual novena is arranged by a church so that the devout may come in and make their nine devotions consecutively over a period of time. Catholics believe that these mass novenas are more potent than private ones. In Chicago last January a perpetual novena, the only one in the U. S. devoted to the Virgin Mary in her special aspect of "Our Sorrowful Mother," was begun at Our Lady...
Sexational, robustious Cinemactress Mae West appeared on a commercial broadcast for the first time in four years. Result: the most indignant wave of protest from radio listeners in radio's history. Cause: Miss West had turned the Biblical story of Adam & Eve into a burlesque act full of drawling double-entendres, elliptical references to fig leaves and nakedness, talk of the "original applesauce." No sooner had the program closed than angry comments began to pour in to the sponsors (Chase & Sanborn), the broadcasting company (NBC), the advertising agents (J. Walter Thompson). The National Legion of Decency threatened to clean...
Continuing the interview, Margo describes her innocent school days in a convent. The next scene shows where she really spent them-in a reformatory, where, to relieve the tedium and pad the act, the girls put on an impromptu play, Redlight Rosie. In Act III, the reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will...
...Jehovah's Witnesses, the Witnesses' lawyers did not know, but they considered it unfavorable that in its decision the court cited the University of California case, in which it had ruled that students did not have the right to exemption from military training, in itself an act of allegiance, because of religious scruples...
...each of these tons producers lost an average of 11?. This state of affairs in the $3,500,000,000 coal industry was no 1936 phenomenon; save for a brief respite under NRA it has been the normal condition of coal since 1923. After NRA came the Guffey Coal Act (also found unconstitutional) and finally last spring the Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code authority (minus jurisdiction over labor practices), had as its first big job to fix minimum coal prices. Last week...