Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer was not that Chicago had lost its mind, but that the play's leading man was acting up. Moreover, he was not just any leading man, but the great John Barrymore-sometimes ill, sometimes tight, but always a trouper. Many a night he has rolled to the theatre, not sure of his legs, not sure of his lines, but certain that he could put on a good show of some sort. "Yep," says the doorman, "he arrives every night, dead or alive...
Early American Ballads (John Jacob Niles, tenor; Victor: 8 sides). A "hillbilly" who knows where his songs come from (he studied at the University of Lyons and at Oxford) croons The Gypsy Laddie and My Little Mohee, twanging a dulcimer the while...
Religious Humanism-not to be confused with the philosophic "New" or "Literary" Humanism championed by Walter Lippmann, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More some years ago-is considerably older than the First Humanist Society. In Minneapolis, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich, nominally Unitarian, has preached this non-supernatural faith for nearly 25 years. But the Manhattan society was founded and is run by one of the most articulate and ubiquitous of U. S. divines, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study...
...Died. John Taylor Adams, 76, taciturn onetime (1921-24) G. 0. P. national committee chairman, close-mouthed campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge; after long illness, in Dubuque, Iowa...
...Commandment (Cathedral Films), as sombre as a pogrom and sometimes as bloodcurdling, tells the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful, youthful John Beal) is leader of the Zealots, a Jewish revolutionary society. He has three problems: i) to defeat the Romans; 2) to win languid Tamar (Marjorie Cooley) who seems a little puzzled by all the excitement; 3) to convince his father, Rabbi Lamech (Maurice Moscovich), that it is better to free...