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Evelyn Brent has a rather dilapidated vehicle in "Madonna of the Streets." The nasty innuendoes of titles about ladies, pavements, cobblestones. Madonnas, and streets is beginning to pall. You will be nauseated by the story, but you can't get sick of Evelyn Brent...
...judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson as "an outstanding event in the history of Pan-American cultural relations," he helped to award the $1,000 first prize to Alfredo Guttero of Argentina for a formalized, thick-necked Madonna somewhat reminiscent of the woodcuts of Britain's Eric Gill. The award moved Baltimore Catholics to indignant frenzy. Thundered the Catholic Review...
...Nile, translated Defoe, Jack London, O. Henry into his native French. His own books have been translated into 23 languages. During the War he was liaison officer with the British, Indian and U. S. Armies, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Other books: The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, The 13th Lover, The Clown Prince, The Love Clinic, Serenade to the Hangman...
...sort of benevolent neutrality. Hence her League of Prayer and the proposed beatification of her husband.* For months Royalist agents and pro-Habsburg priests have been circulating petitions to the Vatican, among the devout, recounting stories of miracles occurring near Karl's tomb in the Church of the Madonna del Monte at Funchal, Madeira. Czechoslovakian Catholics, such is the royalist reasoning, may not want to rejoin Hungary, but they are bound to think well of a Hungarian King whose father was the Blessed Karl...
...picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked that dopey even with a hangover...