Word: messiahs
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Typical was the case which brought the Harlem Messiah into Children's Court. A school principal had complained that a 14-year-old Negro girl had been taken by her mother to live in a Divine "Heaven" in Harlem. Justice Panken sent the child to live with a sister, sent the mother to Bellevue Hospital after she put on a typical Divinery. Writhing, gesticulating, the woman fell to the courtroom floor screaming: "Father Divine...
Berlin was only mildly amused by the haremish antics, wondered why in his many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came...
...countenance of Conrad Veidt in four different makeups, representing four phases of the tedious life of that legendary Jew who made one of the worst guesses on record. In Jerusalem, Veidt is a rich Jew with a sick wife whom he asks Christ to heal. To his vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with one knight, attempts to seduce another...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
When Magda, the ex-mistress, shoots Elector Max, Zimri's Brotherhood of Man seems about to triumph, for the Minister of Agriculture becomes dictator and summons the Zimri group to power. But after the followers of the late Messiah get one good look at the clever plan of attacking Italy, they turn sternly from peace to war. A satire on the nature of power, Destiny's Man can be recommended to all surviving anarchists...