Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forth in a film of the hypnotic power of the Church of Rome. Yet there is no attempt to proselyte the audience, to make it feel that devotion to the church is better than the love of a boy and a girl. There is no gratuitous singing of an angel choir to cheer this heartbroken boy in a priest's robe as he goes walking on his way alone...
...Revolutions on a hot night when there were festoons in the windows and sees all Europe marching while Bismarck in the corner beats the time on a massive drum. There are the shuffling feet and hunching shoulders of Professor Webster when Victoria hearkens to the voice of "her angel" as he climbs out on the golden bar of heaven. There is Professor Baxter addressing his class, even as though they were the Senate, in a voice of heavy fury to emphasize the lightning brain. There is the eraser, the pointer, the gentleman wearing the hat, the other nine hundred...
...Meher Baba met a holy woman named Baba Jan (Angel of the Father) who died lately at Poona at the reputed age of 130. Meher Baba soon had a vision of his divine nature. For nine months he lay in a coma, came out of it "merged into God." It is explained that many people are in such a super-conscious state but few can remain in touch with the world, like Meher Baba, and help others to attain divinity...
Died. Samuel Davis, 52, "Angel Gabriel" in Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures, who cries, "Gangway for the Lawd God Jehovah"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis. He was the second "Angel Gabriel" to die. His predecessor, C. Wesley Hill, was struck down by an automobile...
Well-paced, well-played. The Silent Witness, adapted from a play of the same name which ran in Manhattan last year, is a high grade stock product, with no undue pretensions. Good shot: Miss Nissen, who made her stage debut as an angel but has since concentrated upon demimondaines, sneering at her lover (Bramwell Fletcher) with such unpleasant petulance that, despite her beauty, spectators can condone his violence...