Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Michael von Faulhaber became Archbishop of Munich in 1917, King Ludwig III still sat on his shadow-throne in Bavaria and the old order of Europe, if crumbling, was not yet gone. Archbishop Faulhaber reached his new archdiocese from the trenches of Germany's Western Front: he had gone to war as a chaplain in 1914, although he was already 45, a bishop and a celebrated Biblical scholar. He was the first German prelate to win the Iron Cross...
...next 31 years Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber represented the Church Militant's oldest traditions. In politics his sympathies were conservative and monarchist, and he never disguised them. But if his values sometimes seemed oldfashioned, they helped him to spot evil quickly, where more modern observers saw only confusion. In 1930 he thundered from his pulpit against the dangers of Bolshevism. Three years later he began to denounce the Nazis for their persecution of the Jews...
...affectionate friends. The third is that he runs a damn good restaurant. In this he has been given extraordinary support by a very pretty and very smart young woman named Gloria Lister, who came to Romanoff's in 1945 as his bookkeeper and who, in 1948, became Mrs. Michael Romanoff. Gloria Romanoff is still his bookkeeper, his business manager and his wife...
...once worked in London, that he often landed in jail after scrapes with the law, that he was by turns a stowaway, a farmer and a movie extra, and that he early assumed the first of a long line of aliases, finally settling, more or less permanently, on Prince Michael Romanoff...
...Wild Heart often turns out tame in its preordained plotting, but the story has been imaginatively told by Britain's pro-ducing-directing-writing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes).* The picture has a warm, earthy flavor with handsomely photographed Technicolor scenes of the rolling Shropshire countryside. And a strong cast helps cover up some of the story weaknesses: David Farrar swaggers masterfully as the horsy squire, and Cyril Cusack is appropriately pale and wan as the deserted parson. But it is in Jennifer Jones's lush, wide-eyed performance...