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Jerusalem Chronicles is the brain child of Polly Van Leer, wife of a Dutch-Jewish industrialist. After hef husband went to Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...
After that Judy saw the Russian six times. He bought her dinners, took hef rowing in Central Park. On Christmas she gave him some Toll House cookies. Said Archie: "Now tell the jury how he impressed your female heart and mind . . ." Judy had found him charming, sensitive. She added, with a quaver, "I thought I was in love with...
...takes a lowly clerical job in a rival company's office to uncover a conspiracy, and incidentally reforms his shiftless son and saves him for the daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat and hef nervous brother, to square accounts, adapts Arliss as a father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile of Arliss, for the rest...