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...inadequate. I want to ask all of you who have $10, and are willing to contribute it, to stand up." About 25 delegates arose. "Well, it doesn't have to be $10. Have you got $5? Form a line and come up and give anything you can." Organist Firmin Swinnen swung into "Onward Christian Soldiers." By dozens, by hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people...
...Spain. If General Sanjurjo's sentence were commuted there would be outbreaks by Communists and Syndicalists. If he were executed the Monarchists would rise. Clemency appeals began to pour in upon Premier Manuel Azana. Two were from the widow of Captain Garcia Hernandez and the mother of Captain Firmin Galan, both of whom were executed for attempting to overthrow King Alfonso. Premier Azana convened his cabinet to consider the decision...
...greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week day.) The organ was designed by Mr. Firmin Swinnen, noted concert organist, who plans and executes the weekly concerts at Longwood...
...years ago, Russia contributed the Moscow Art Theatre; last season, Italy gave us Duse; Firmin Gémier and his Odéon troupe are the famous foreigners who talk to the playgoer in an unfamiliar tongue this season. Their talk is French...
Students versed in the French Theatre asserted that the company was not the Odeon's "original." These same students agreed that it was, nevertheless, satisfactorily representative. To culture-seeking but untraveled Americans, it seemed a keenly trained troupe depending on team work rather than individual brilliance. Firmin Gémier, they thought, was an exceptionally intelligent actor of about the calibre of their own Henry Miller...