Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of true Catholics it was a minor detail that the persons unknown who perpetrated the Supreme Sacrilege were also thieves and stole from the Church of S. Marco Maggiore religious vessels, consisting of a jewel-studded chalice, monstrances and Pyxes valued at thousands of dollars, but all essentially things of little worth in spiritual comparison with the Host...
Slightly Scarlet (Paramount). More than slightly foolish, this decorative melodrama of jewel thieves at work and play on the Riviera belongs to a comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its sets are so pretty, and its people so competent that within the scope of its intention it is hard to find fault with it. Even in its worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something...