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...some point during thousands of U. S. Protestant church services every Sunday, the choir rises, renders an anthem...
...words are usually from Scripture; the tune unpretentious-nothing so difficult as Bach or Handel. Majority of the anthems which plain churchgoers like, and which their choirs sing, come from the industrious pens of some 20 U. S. anthem-writers. Of these the most prolific is Mrs. Carrie Belle Adams. In Portland, Ore. last week Mrs. Adams sent off to her publishers four new anthems, baked a jelly cake, celebrated her 77th birthday...
Carrie Belle Wilson, daughter of a choir-leader, turned out her first anthem, He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place, at 16. She had already grown to love Allyn Groves Adams, 23-year-old bass in a Paris, Ill. church choir. They married when she was 21 and Mr. Adams went into the hominy business. In 1906 Carrie Belle Adams became associate editor of the Choir Herald, for which she has since written an article or an anthem every month, year in, year out. Her total output: 4,000 compositions, has made more money from high-school operettas and church...
When the earthquake sound effects are over, the MacDonald sound effects begin again. Having rendered two night club ditties, "San Francisco," a mission anthem and part of the role of Marguerite in Faust, she is yodeling Nearer, My God, To Thee in a tent settlement when Blackie rediscovers her, kneels down to talk to God. A shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot...
...Schreck, 32, dead of inflammation of the brain. The service was brief, manly, preacherless. A Nazi philosopher orated on the theme, "Let the furies of hell battle against me; I will ride through death and the devil." Instead of a psalm, the mourners sang Though All Should Prove Unfaithful, anthem of Nazidom's elite Schutzstaffel (Black Shirts), whose chief job is to guard Adolf Hitler. Schutzstaffel Chief Heinrich Himmler made a speech: "And as we serve here, you will serve in Valhalla, for your Führer, for our movement and for Germany." The Führer laid...