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...first appearance the local paper reported that "the cornet player [Commissioner Parker] was terrible." Then he went on to Elgin, Ill. for a big farewell. It was at Elgin that Parker, then a 16-year-old printer on the Elgin Daily News, first attended a Salvation Army open-air meeting, was so taken by the Salvationists' happy abandon that he joined up then & there...
...wooded Ruling, where the Generalissimo used to hold his open-air summer conferences in the years before the Japs came, it was Lin Sen's pleasure to place stone seats beside the pleasant walks among the rustling bamboo groves and within sound of the waterfalls. He had a warning carved on the seats: "He who keeps a concubine, keep...
Near dusty Teheran, where cargo from the U.S. and Britain is taken over by the Russians, the plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
First stop was England, where he took part in an open-air service in London's Hyde Park on Easter morning, made the rounds of American camps. Then he hopped across to Northern Ireland for more inspection, afterwards headed for other tours...
...Incident often suggests the perfect minor work it might have been. Its compact story naturally fits the screen, and it is squarely in Hollywood's open-air action tradition. So much of the picture is so good that its occasionally thoughtless details are magnified. Worst example: instead of using an ordinary tree for the lynching, the picture introduces a dramatized, super-real contraption drenched beyond recognition in Little Theater lighting...