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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Christian churches are officially committed to belief in Heaven as an ultimate reward for good, many a Christian considers it bad taste to speculate in detail upon life after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...
...Kennedy's darkest facts dealt with the 1936-37 feature schedule. This schedule was first considered last November and by May included 50 pictures. Many were so vaguely conceived that as soon as some attempt was made to flesh out the title with narrative detail they had to be dropped because suitable casts were unavailable, costs were too high or the sales department did not like them. Three weeks later the original list of 50 was down to 29, only three of which were in production. Not one had a completed script. Meantime other cinema companies were nearly ready...
...real estate operator, began sponsoring summer orchestra concerts at Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woods he owned on suburban Chicago's North Shore. Later, not instruments but voices made Ravinia famed. The Ravinia Opera which Louis Eckstein produced, signing up the best artists, casting them, supervising every production detail, cost him some $1,500,000 before Depression halted it four years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932). Patron Eckstein, who kept hoping to revive Ravinia, died last winter. Last week there was orchestra music once more in the open-sided theatre at Ravinia Park, a major North Shore event...
Late in life Harriette wrote her Memoirs as part of a blackmailing scheme. Describing her former companions in long and lurid detail, she thoughtfully gave each the opportunity to be omitted from the volumes, or to be described in a very good light, in return for a cash payment. Harriette, even when her professional career was in full flower, had wanted to be a writer. But the highbrow novels and plays she turned out were affected, pompous, unreadable. When she slapped out the 250,000 words of her Memoirs for a despicable purpose, writing about the life she knew best...
...city (Manhat tan) that Mrs. Roosevelt had to withdraw behind three White House aides. They made a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Arthur E. Brigden, 67, of Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research, she had discovered that Martha Washington was "a thorough housekeeper, looking after every detail of household affairs, with a bunch of keys always hanging by her side." To pay homage to such desirable virtues, the A. C. W. W. laid a wreath on the first First Lady's tomb, ignored her husband...