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...back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting the women's arrest...
...attempted to murder Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski; Poland's second President, Jan Wojciechowski; the Minister of Commerce and Industry Eugene Kwiatkowski; has succeeded in murdering a State official, one Sobinski. Last week the Umo added to its reputation by burning a Franciscan convent and 60 farms...
...Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady's sister, Mrs. John Cavanagh of Norwalk, Conn. "A lie and sheer nonsense!" announced Mrs. Brady's secretary in London...
...Virginia Military Institute. Last year he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts in Baltimore, where he was also an instructor in cast drawing. Twice before he has won traveling scholarships. When they learned that he was executing a St. Francis, the nuns of Norfolk's Franciscan Convent were led in pious procession by their Mother Superior to Sculptor Simpson's studio. Though he is not a Catholic, many of Sculptor Simpson's Catholic friends promised to say masses for his success...
...mysteriously salable banalities of musical comedy are further exemplified in Jonica by a song entitled "I Want Someone," the queer facial contortions of Joyce Barbour, who really can be pretty, and a wedding parade in which the girl from the convent is propelled, by coincidence, into matrimony...