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...offered at 41 Bromfield St., Boston, at the headquarters of the Massachusetts Bible Society. As depository agent of the non-profit organization Harold P. Landers points out that sixty-five cents still furnishes the purchaser with an excellent, legible, 600-page Bible complete with the dedication of the 1611 translation committee to King James I. Mr. Landers, who has been selling the world's best seller for 35 years, has on his shelves even greater bargains for non-English speaking peoples. Three cents now supplies the South Sea missionary with portions of the Book in pamphlet form, and last year...
Whatever the causes of this English cinema introversion may be, and despite the "all that is British is good" results it leads to, it must be admitted that the films in question have been done in a highly literate vein. Bit it would be refreshing to see the same English film qualities of insight, subtlety, and pictorial honesty applied to non-English and perhaps less prejudiced fields now and then. Despite their quality, the same English faces and the same British virtues threaten to bore emotionally and intellectually...
Eisen left vaudeville to become a Brooklyn chiropractor, and Kaye joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, went to the Orient where, acting in front of non-English audiences, he was forced to master the high art of pantomime...
...people longing to worship. There is the explanation that the grant was made for political reasons. However, the claim that it was inspired by Stalin's love for the people was substantiated by an ambassador to Russia who knows and understands the country. The ambassador, who is non-English speaking, said that Stalin wanted to give something to the Russian people because he had to take away so much that they valued. . . . Significantly, plans are being made for the future of the Church, especially for the training of future clergy now in the army...
...other devices, beginning with the price, calculated to put the stuff over with the people. Two sizes of type are employed: large type for essentials, small type for skipping (some of the best things in the book). At the end appears an absurd and appealing glossary, defining 18 non-English terms used in the text, including bourgeoisie, élan, bizarreries...