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Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Met's Youngest | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...strongly, Marc Connelly has God leave Heaven four times ("I'll be back Saddy") in an effort to make Man do right, finally substituting Mercy for Might when He suffers with his Son on Calvary. Prior to one of his unsuccessful visits to Earth, "de Lawd" confides to Gabriel, his Pullman porter-like secretary: "De whole thing rests on my shoulders. I declare, I guess dat's why I feel so solemn and serious. . . . You know dis thing's turned into quite a proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Heaven on Earth | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...achieves a state of grace before each performance by meditating alone for half an hour, and has never yet made an entrance to Gabriel's strident cue "Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah" without breaking into a cold sweat. "If you got to thinking about it too much and let it get hold of you offstage as well as on," says he, "I don't think your sanity would stand it. It's a hard part to play." He has had to put up with a good deal of hysterical adoration. A friend of 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Heaven on Earth | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Through the generosity of Gabriel Wells the University has acquired a marble bust of Rene Descartes, by Giovanui Loronzo Bernini, an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. The statue is now on exhibition in the loggia on the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum. The statue was presented in the memory of William James...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gets Sculpture As William James Memorial | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

...YOUR BROTHER-Gabriel Marlowe-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surrealist Susurri | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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