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Like a great swarm of bees, the House of Commons suddenly buzzed into life. No institution in the world is so jealous of its prerogatives as the British House, where neither king nor peers may enter without due permission. Sessional Order...
...satisfied with the anti-Fascist riots and the "Massacre of Salacos," Greek newspapers last week had an even more startling story to follow it. The Greek Orthodox Church has in its guardianship the third of three temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery...
...came to the throne. Interested only in hunting he allowed his ugly, lecherous wife, Maria Luisa of Parma, and her lover, Manuel Godoy, to run the country. Goya became court painter and the lover of the Duchess of Alba whom he painted nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened him for life. Coarse, snub-nosed, his face creased by excess, Goya...
...rest of Gambling Lady shows what happens when an old friend of Garry Madison tries to take him away from his wife. She, Sheila Aiken (Claire Dodd), snubs Lady Lee. Lady Lee renews her acquaintance with the bookmaker. Garry Madison grows jealous. When the bookmaker is found murdered in a gutter, Garry Madison is held for murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison...
...song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went his amorous and lyric way, wooing his hostesses with varying success. Once, on his way to serenade a lady, and clad only in a wolfskin, a pack of clogs nearly finished his career. Once a jealous husband had his tongue slit. Though he started on two crusades and did his share of fighting against his fellow-Christians, he never got farther than Cyprus. There he brought off his most dangerous coup by eloping with the Princess Xene, captive of Richard Coeur de Lion. Xene...