Word: paganization
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...feature offering at the University, Cecille de Mille again exhibits his technique as the master of the spectacle. Thirty tame, toothless lions, many fine Roman matrous dressed in the best 1932 drapery, flashing chariots, and tons of Roman cutlery, not to mention several yards of early Christian beards, exciting pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because of his love for Mercia (Elissa Landi...
...replied with fine Scotch logic that the only legal way to omit the Assembly would be to have it meet in full special session, decide that it should not be held. Added he: "What a year for the Assembly! Think of the witness we can make! There is the pagan Laymen's Missionary Report, and our own board's answer to it, with no ringing word of righteous indignation. And there is 'Buchmanism' alias the 'Oxford Group Movement' (shades of Pusey, Keble and Newman!*), alias 'First Century Christian Fellowship!' . . . summed...
...rescue, the young woman is kidnapped by the brigand-general who ran over the coolie. General Yen (Nils Asther) whisks Megan Davis to his summer palace, dresses her in pajamas, holds a mass execution of prisoners-of-war under her bedroom window and makes advances toward her with pagan persistence...
...ancient days all good Romans gave Strenae (New Year's gifts) to their children and friends on the Kalends of January. In later days, after all Christendom had agreed to celebrate on Dec. 25 the birth of their Lord Jesus Christ, many and many such pagan customs were transferred joyously to Christmastide. Today all good folk know that they should ponder reverently that mystery of 1936 years ago. But they may be pagan too, and are; to the profit of many and many a tradesman. Last week in Manhattan there was an exhibition of Christmas cards, at the Hotel...
...melodrama. Nero (Charles Laughton) orders his lieutenant, Marcus Superbus (Fredric March), to clear Rome of Christians. While doing so, Marcus falls in love with a Christian girl named Mercia (Elissa Landi). This makes the vicious Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) jealous. Marcus Superbus tries to persuade Mercia to become a pagan. He fails. Nero wants to forgive her for being a Christian but Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes to the lions first. Marcus follows her-not, as in the original story, because he has been converted, but for reasons...