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Most popular sights: Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa (Christ's road to Calvary), Omar's Mosque and Solomon's Temple, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Church of All Nations, the Dead Sea ("every one of the boys would take a swim although the water is so salty that you can hardly stand on the bottom...
...Dolorosa. In Forest Hills, L.I., 19-year-old Dolores White, arrested for turning in a false fire alarm, offered the best explanation she had: she was despondent because her boy friend was in the Army...
Every afternoon shortly after 1, a crowd of sleepy-eyed "town girls," "call girls," "party girls," juke-joint dames and dance-hall hostesses gather at No. 513½ Dolorosa St., in San Antonio, Tex. They are girls who entertain many of the 30,000 soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston and Randolph Field. But no bawdy house is No. 513½: it is a free clinic where a group of experts are trying a practical new solution for the old problem of venereal disease and the army. Last week an enterprising reporter from the New York Daily News named Carl...
...fratricidal Spanish war last week, as the cold weather further congealed the stalemate. It was of passing interest that on the Saint's Day of Alfonso XIII, which fell last week, observances were celebrated all over the White half of Spain. "He was made to walk the Via Dolorosa carrying the burden of all of us," sentimentally observed San Sebastian's typical Dvario Vasco. "He cannot walk back along this thorny path; but, a Spaniard before a Monarch, he will be the first to rejoice in a free, strong Spain." As the Saint's Day was also...
...Merry Widow showed Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...