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...themselves up in the Hall of the Conclave to elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...
...Modern Mechanics and Inventions (later sued by Popular Mechanics on its title, and by Fritz von Opel, the German rocketeer, for an article concerning him) ; Startling Detective Adventures (sued by a North Dakota sheriff for an article which he claimed he did not write), Hollywood and two months ago, Mystic Magazine, an idea conceived in Paris by Mrs. Fawcett. Mystic Magazine capitalizes the current faddish interest in astrology and (to quote Variety) "mitt-reading." Its first issue carried an "exclusive" spirit message from the late Conan Doyle -"scooping the Cosmopolitan by a full month." Captain Billy is frankly worshipful toward...
Myrmecology sets Mystic Maeterlinck musing; he thinks the ant may be an example, not only to the sluggard, but to the whole race. "One day we shall learn, as all the creatures that share this earth with us have already learned, to content ourselves with life . . . and we shall find, perhaps, when we know how to live it, that life is enough. ... I believe that the ant is far less unhappy than the very happiest...
...Author. Maurice Maeterlinck, 68, Belgian mystic, playwright, scientist, does not live in Belgium because he says Belgium does not approve of artists. In his villa near Nice he lives with his young second wife (he divorced Georgette LeBlanc in 1919). Other books: The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird, Pellcas et Melisande...
...enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington...