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...their march across Africa. In after years, white men heard that Lobengula had killed himself, that he had died of smallpox, that his grave was a cache of buried treasure. But the Matabele kept silence: the king's body and grave were never found until a rain-goddess gave the secret away last month...
Place of Spirits. This rain-goddess is a familiar figure in Rhodesia: a well-shaped, fearless Matabele woman of 55 with a jolly face, a searching gaze, a European taste in clothes, and (according to her people) a proved ability to make rain. A white prospector who believed the old legends of buried treasure persuaded her to lead him to the secret burial cave of Lobengula...
...expert piece of sentiment called Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a young English actress, who looked rather like a goddess sculptured in butterscotch, made her brief screen debut, and without fair warning even to herself, stole the film. Though nobody clearly realized it at the time (four years ago), she also started something new in screen history...
...what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love...
...devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance of the individual human being...