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...left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between them more than 40,000 people. Among the Commune's victims were two hapless generals, Claude-Martin Lecomte and Clément Thomas, shot as "enemies of the people"; Archbishop Darboy of Paris and Curé Deguerry of the Madeleine, with four Jesuit fathers; batches of right-wing hostages (see cuts). In 1871 the Germans who occupied France were interested spectators. This year they may even have an interest in encouraging disorder and violence...
...Biscuit Eater (Paramount). A biscuit eater is a retriever who instead of fetching back game for his master to eat, eats it himself. This unsporting behavior puts the cur outside the pale. Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn a born biscuit eater into a total abstainer and top-notch bird dog. But nearly everybody will enjoy the performances of the biscuit cater (Promise), the colored boy (Cordell Hickman), the white boy (Billy Lee) and the field trials filmed in Albany...
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...Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier to admire than imitate...
...wistful little cur with a happy wag to his tail wandered into the Albany, N. Y. post office and made himself at home. Amused clerks promptly adopted him, named him Owney, fed him from their own lunches, let him sleep on mail sacks. Feeling safe wherever there was mail, Owney took to climbing onto trains with it and traveling off to other cities, always returning, however, to Albany. The Albany clerks eventually bought him a collar, stamped on it a request that post office clerks elsewhere attach to it the names of the offices Owney visited. When the collar became...