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...Atlantic City's Steel Pier offers not only cinema, minstrel shows, a zoo, a World War museum, a haunted house, a miniature Alpine village. Davy Jones's Locker, Tony Sarg's Blue Grotto etc., etc., but also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights. Managed by Jules Falk, the company is staffed with able second-string singers, who have accomplished the unique feat of singing consistently and successfully in English for the past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many...
Form of the Lourdes celebration was a triduum-three solid days and nights of prayer, 140 successive masses, one of which was celebrated by Bishop James Edward Kearney of Salt Lake City. More & more pilgrims arrived, sleeping on the open ground, until 100,000 gathered around the Grotto for the final mass by Cardinal Pacelli, with benediction broadcast from the Vatican by the Pope. Object of the whole triduum was Peace, according to the Holy Father's letter, "to look at and pray to the Madonna to intercede with God in order that the palm of peace...
...more enlightened biddies in Holworthy Hall catches up on her reading by picking last evening's newspapers out of the wastebasket each morning and perusing the more enticing headlines by whatever light is apt to penetrate that dingy grotto. The morning after the peace demonstration William Randolph Hearst succeeded in rousing her to a high pitch of excitement with accounts of subversive, un-American, and Marxist activities in our institutions of learning. Puzzled and alarmed she buttonholed a Holworthyite on his way to class with the bland question, "Mr. Burlingthwarp, what's a Commamist?" Disentangling politic 1 philosophies with...
...from the Virgin, the Servites attribute the founding of their order to Mary herself. Dedicated to preaching and meditating on the nature of Christ's Mother, the Servites were established in the U. S. in 1870. Ten years ago in Portland the local fathers set about building a sacred grotto and grove to their patroness. Selecting a site atop a sheet cliff outside the city, they filled it with statuary, including colored tableau groups representing Mary's Seven Sorrows.* They ran an elevator 150 ft. up the cliff so that tourists might pay to view the landscape...
Cleveland's big, bare Public Auditorium, scene of the Al Sirat Grotto circus, was empty except for circus attendants one morning last week when Beatty brought his cats in for rehearsal. Five old lions and four old tigers padded through the timber runway into the steel-barred arena, leaped up on their pedestals. Sammy, a big, smart, well-behaved lion of five years, perched just above the runway. Then six of the new beasts came scampering in. Third in line was a winsome young lioness named Bessie...