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Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...
...even to Paul von Hindenburg was ever sworn such an oath as the Cabinet, at Adolf Hitler's behest, last week decreed all Federal ministers, State ministers and State governors must take. The Cabinet then arose and loudly swore...
...Russia to join the League signed by 30 countries whose signatures M. Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which M. Benes stuffed into his pocket before dashing back to Geneva. President Benes convoked the Council. Then Poland, at M. Barthou's behest, was constrained to vote for Russia to receive a permanent Council seat as soon as the Assembly goes through the motions of voting the thoroughly invited Soviet Union into the League. This was considered last week a mere formality, since M. Barthou had apparently corralled more than enough votes...
...bulk of the public support. Why, in such a situation, we do not have an undivided press is beyond me. I have seen news garbled, suppressed and colored and I have seen able young men prostituting their talents in libelous and misleading stories pandered as news at the behest of opinionated bosses...
Last Sunday Preacher Shorter no longer was pastor of Pilgrim Church. The congregation which called him there eight years ago, chiefly at the behest of President Alfred Helmer Lundin of Seattle's Chamber of Commerce, had voted him out. Chief reason was that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers...