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...area, knowing that British troops were under orders not to desecrate those sacred precincts. In two days' operations nine Arabs were killed, no British. Arresting all men whose shoulders showed the bruises of rifle butts, Tommies put 300 suspects in a concentration camp on the site of King Herod's ancient citadel. Although a 24-hour curfew prevailed, the British command showed its regard for Moslem religious feelings by agreeing to a request of the Moslem Supreme Council to permit 40 Arabs to attend the Friday noon prayers at the Mosque of Omar so that those services, held...
...Catholics of the world could really be achieved." Papal Legate Pacelli, without descending from the high religious plane of the Congress, was more specific about Catholicism's enemies-"the lugubrious array of the militant godless, shaking the clenched fist of anti-Christ." Cried he: "Where now are Herod and Pilate, Nero and Diocletian, and Julian the Apostate, and all the persecutors of the First Century? St. Ambrose replies: 'The Christians who have been massacred have won the victory; the vanquished were their persecutors.' Ashes and dust are the enemies of Christianity; ashes and dust are all that...
...full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes...
...subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...
...give his reign stature, Herod married Mariamne, daughter of the dynasty he had supplanted. In doing so he allied himself with a family that constantly plotted his overthrow. Forthright, candid in his ruthlessness, Herod could not cope with the subtlety of the courtiers and diplomats of Jerusalem, was almost driven mad by real or imaginary conspiracies around him. He killed his wife, his mother-in-law, his three oldest sons, even shook his great prestige at Rome by the frenzy of his conspiracy-hunting. Growing more and more active as an administrator as he wiped out the members...