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...cultists of the Oxford Group. On the heels of the Ollerup meeting, a European author with a respectable following will publish next week the Group's first big literary apologia. Having tried smart fiction (Evensong), pacifism (Cry Havoc!) and horticulture (Down The Garden Path), elegant British Author Beverley Nichols has turned to the Oxford Group. "All I want," says he in his forthcoming The Fool Hath Said,* "is to get as many people as possible to share with me the excitement of living Christianity...
...Washington was more reluctant to entangle himself and his department in the legal complexities of collective bargaining than Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings. In his opinion, NLRB had no case. So the matter remained at a standstill for two months until, fortnight ago, President Roosevelt sent Francis Beverley Biddle of Philadelphia in to succeed Lloyd Kirkham Garrison as the board's chairman...
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...
Robert R. Barker '36, of Evanston, III., Mclvin L. Barnet '36, of Yonkers, N. Y., Beverley M. Bowie '35, of New York, N. Y., Daniel J. Buckley, Jr. '35, of Arlington, Mass., John J. P. Campana '36, of Roxbury Mass., William H. Cann '37, of Newark, N. J., Harold S. Cone '35, of Greensbore, N. C., Howard A. Cook '37, of New York, N. Y., John P. Coolidge '35, of Cambridge, Mass., Cyrus C. DeCoster, Jr. '37, of St. Paul, Minn., Macdonald Deming '37, of New York, N. Y., Josiah Derby '36, of Boston, Mass., Robert F. Dine...
...something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality...