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...Roman Catholic Church has lately noticed in rural Europe an increase of morbid, ultra-mystical worshippers and of strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical...
...Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria in favor of his son (the present Tsar Boris) and grim, old Rupprecht, the deposed Crown Prince of Bavaria. In Coburg last week everyone called Rupprecht "Your Majesty." He happens to be the Stuart Pretender to the Crown of Britain...
...even hotter water than Amos 'n Andy's Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea was the Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose last week. Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, who took charge of the Moose in 1906 and boosted their membership from 247 to 600,000, was on trial in Manhattan's Federal Court charged with conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery. In the same boat with the Moose was the Fraternal Order of Eagles, two of whose officers were also indicted two months ago (TIME...
...exhibition which opened last week will move to San Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...
...Crawford is musical director of the Newark Music Foundation, radio conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, soloist and occasional conductor of summer concerts at Chautauqua, N. Y. Increasingly busy, he is a licensed airplane pilot; by swift swoops he filled close engagements this summer in Fredonia, N. Y., Mystic, Conn, and Bradford...