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...southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus since 1917, but he has lived on Loch Ness for 50 years, still spends most of his time at the monastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Nessie | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Rudy Rudynoff's four concentric circles of prancing horses have been augmented this year by the appearance-in the centre, holding a whip and a Great Dane-of statuesque Mile Maria Rasputin, billed as the Mad Monk's Daughter, who was out with the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Bigger & Better | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world in the face of its inevitable destruction. The religion of the contented inhabitants is moderation--even moderation in virtue. Their motto: "Be kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/14/1937 | See Source »

Before their Saturday evening performance the quartet of lovely young ladies in "Brother Rat" at the Plymouth Theatre all agreed that the audience laughed long and hard at John Monk's and Fred Finklehoffe's first comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playful Cast of "Brother Rat" Admits It Gets Kick from Every Performance of Current Success | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Dark-haired Miss Murphy, the understudy, when questioned about the authors, raved: "Oh, they're the most wonderful guys you ever met. They both graduated from V.M.I. Finklehoffe became a lawyer and Monk an actor; now they're collaborating on another play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playful Cast of "Brother Rat" Admits It Gets Kick from Every Performance of Current Success | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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