Word: fatimas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Miracle of Fatima is a special attempt to capitalize on Roman Catholic movie-goers, it also represents this current trend in religious pictures: It tries to "sell" a religious theme by sensationalizing it (as "Spectacular," "Staggering," "Breathtaking"), and disguises some tired melodrama with a fresh set of symbols...
...miracle here is the appearance of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal during 1917. She appeared before a group of small children on six successive months and delivered various messages about the coming war. On her final visit, the sun is supposed to have rotated and thrown out rays of colored lights. The unhappy position of one of the children, torn between belief in her vision and the incredulity of her parcuts, is past of this legend...
...voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive...
...banquet at the Hotel Astor, where he was posing as the U.S. consul general from Rumania. He was exposed, but managed to stay out of jail. In 1921, he got into the White House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan's Princess Fatima to President Warren G. Harding. In 1926, claiming to be a prominent Hollywood physician, he tried to take charge of Rudolph Valentino's funeral services in New York. Other roles: Lieut. Commander Royale St. Cyr, French air corps; Peruvian ambassador...
RELIGIOUS MUSIC GETS BUILDUP AS SALES SOAR, squawked a headline in the show-business tradesheet Variety. Beginning with Our Lady of Fatima (TIME, Sept. 25), of which there are currently at least ten recordings, faith has become a popular subject on Tin Pan Alley. The "diskeries," as Variety calls the record companies, are hunting for new items...