Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Study in Scarlet (Fox). When National Broadcasting Co. presented A Study in Scarlet on the air, its Salt Lake City outlet indignantly cut off the instalment which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure...
...series of shocking murders is being perpetrated in London. Victims all appear to be members of a Scarlet Ring (instead of Mormon Elders), an organization which is liquidating a wholesale theft of jewels from the Imperial Chinese coffers. Victim to pay attention to is No. 3, a certain Captain Pyke. When a body is pulled out of the Thames, his wife (Anna May Wong) identifies it as her husband because of a peculiar ring the corpse is wearing. The diligently-coached Chinese-American actress remarks, in fact, with almost perfect aplomb: "It was an ancient heirloom belonging to my family...
...great demand; for the attendance at this one recital showed its popularity. In addition the Fogg Museum of Fine Arts has very recenty sponsored several concerts of combined organ and vocal music which have been well attended. Both the noon hour of music every Sunday from the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, and the music from the residence of Mr. Schwab in New York present famous examples of the popularity of such concerts...
...railroads at Salt Lake City where the candidate indicated a firm intention of solving that major public problem (see p. 41). But even in that address he promised all things to all men-lower rates for shippers, good wages for employes, safe returns for investors (including the Mormon Church, a heavy holder of railroad bonds...
Died, George E. Careless, 93, Mormon music teacher, Brigham Young's music lieutenant; in Salt Lake City...