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First production of the new group will be the world premier of "I Was a King in Babylon," a satire on reincarnation by William Gerhardi, one of England's foremost dramatists. The play has been scheduled for a professional London debut this winter and a New York showing in the spring...
Kilty, who will direct the "King in Babylon," spend six months at the close of his five year Air Force career in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and another three months studying at the Guild Hall School of Drama...
...Forget Thee. Why had Palestine, a narrow, 10,000-square-mile strip of desert land, become a concern to all men? In part the answer, as old as history, was the yearning of Israel for its promised land: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. . . If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. In part it was as old as man's desire to be free, now manifested in Arab determination to win independence. In part...
...overlapping: 1) Pentecostal, teaching that the Holy Spirit floods the believer in his ecstasy and that the Lord speaks to and through him; 2) Holiness, believing that absolute purity is possible for the Saved upon earth, and distinguishing sharply between the small sect of the Saved and the world (Babylon); 3) Millenarian, looking for the imminent Second Coming, Armageddon, the thousand-years reign and the end of the world...
Like mad Nebuchadnezzar, who sheeplike browsed Babylon's pastures, U.S. parachute troops and other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass. At least, Biochemist Gustav J. Martin of New York thinks so. But, as he told the American Chemical Society in Memphis last week, soldiers' guts first have to be conditioned to this allfours diet, by getting certain harmless bacteria domiciled among the trillions of other bacteria normally present in the human intestine...