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...they repeatedly appealed until last week they were before the bar of the Church's highest tribunal- the Assembly, sitting as a "Court of Jesus Christ" and voting upon preliminary decisions made by the Permanent Judicial Commission whose head is Minnesota's Supreme Court Justice Clifford L. Hilton. To the appeals of ten Machenites this Court of Jesus Christ made a simple answer-No. Chagrined and incensed, Fundamentalist Machen appeared aware that his movement was liquidated so far as the Presbyterian General Assembly was concerned. He promptly announced he would secede, with how many adherents he would...
...which it made in 1932. Founded by a Labor group in 1895, the Record was bought by the late great Edward Wyllis ("Old Man") Scripps, taken over by his estranged son James, became one of the chain which James's heirs published in partnership with the late Byron Hilton Canfield.* Day before elections in 1932, after both partners' deaths, the 9 a. m. edition of the Record appeared with a front-page editorial boosting its old friend & favorite, William Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial missing...
...Smith; Theatre Guild, producer) combines all the good things from a generation of British domestic comedies, beautifully packaged in a tip-top production by the Theatre Guild. What it lacks in novelty, it more than makes up in size (nine scenes) and wholesomeness. From the innocent affair between the Hilton's dog and the neighbor's bitch to the momentary missteps of Dorothy and Roger Hilton themselves, Call It a Day is never in any real danger of losing its virtue...
...sudden burst of unseasonably fine London weather is responsible for setting the Hiltons, their two daughters, son, maid and terrier on a frolic for 16 lively hours. Forsythia and iris are blooming, and to love all hearts turn lightly save that of the Hilton's cleaning woman who ominously declares: "The first spring day Is in the devil...
...more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble of mien, has a weak moment with a flashy actress. By midnight, however, the devil has been safely sent...