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...unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold...
Postmaster General Farley, principal patronage dispenser for the Administration, last week completed his peaceful penetration of the most non-political citadel in Washington when his man Emil Hurja (pronounced Hur-ya.) took over a desk in the Public Works Administration. It was all done so smoothly and tactfully that Public Works Administrator Ickes, who is also Secretary of the Interior, thought that he had taken Mr. Hurja in on his own motion. Smart Jim Farley sat back and let him continue to think...
...lions, many fine Roman matrous dressed in the best 1932 drapery, flashing chariots, and tons of Roman cutlery, not to mention several yards of early Christian beards, exciting pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because of his love for Mercia (Elissa Landi), one of the persecuted Christians, and Claudette Colbert, who plays Nero's wife, Poppaea, do very well, but Charles Laughton...
...Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament to a traffic policeman. At a cinema performance of Ben Hur at a fair in Mollet, Spain, a colporteur stood by the door crying: "The Holy Gospels! With all the texts that are thrown on the screen in the film!" He sold...
...Author. Robert Raynolds had reached the age of 28 without getting one of his stories published. Born in Santa Fe, N. Mex., in the room in the Governor's Palace where the late Author Lew Wallace is supposed to have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took...