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...weeks-make it a month and be sure- most of the financial backing came from the "Richest Man in Spain,'' Monarchist Count of Romanones and racketeer-tycoon Juan March, the uneducated, onetime tobacco smuggler. Date of the uprising was set for July 25, 1936, the feast of Santiago (St. James). The murder of Fascist Deputy Jose Calvo Sotelo on July 12 pulled the trigger prematurely...
...countered with "streamline Shakespeare" by John Barrymore and his wife Elaine Barrie, and prepared to put one over on CBS with "original" radio plays by Maxwell Anderson and Stephen Vincent Benet. Playwright Anderson's The Feast of Ortolans, an historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over...
...tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe God had given Roch the power of healing the plague-stricken, and he was canonized even before the city of Constance was delivered from cholera in 1414 by prayers for his intercession. Last week brought the feast (Aug. 16) of St. Roch and in Pittsburgh was commemorated what Catholics believe to have been a miracle as ineffable as any the saint invoked during his life...
...Because the feast of St. Roch falls within the octave-eight-day observance-of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin (Aug. 15), the two can be conveniently celebrated together...
After celebrating Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Pius XI motored through the gardens of his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, then got out of his auto and walked about for several minutes. It was his longest walk this year...