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Through a millennium and a half Rome has known many a German master. Now, as the bloody battle of Italy moves up from the south, Nazi tanks and cannon rumble not far from the Forum, Colosseum and Pantheon. Truck convoys roll by the churches, palaces and museums where the sculptures of the Caesars, the frescoes of the Renaissance are stored...
...naked Y Huts of the Western Front housed many artists from the dusty, anonymous pantheon of American vaudeville. To entertain the troops, about 300 professional entertainers, supplemented on the spot by countless soldier-actors, went to France. Usually the soldier-spectators crowded the huts hours ahead of time and stood outside the windows...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Jo Hayden (Judy Garland), Jimmy Metcalfe (George Murphy) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) have one thing in common: they are smalltime song-&-dancers whose hearts are set on one day appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
Pundits' Praise. By this time many a pious Hindu, including the two most famed pundits of the time-Gauri and Vaishnavcharan-declared that this walking pantheon was himself an Incarnation of God. Other pious folk thought him a madman. His strange acts while in trance varied from imitating a monkey to feeding Kali's food to a cat. Later he made fun of people who proclaimed his divinity by pointing to his left arm, which he had broken in a trance, and saying, "Have you ever heard of God breaking...
...Builder has given various parts of his handiwork such symbolic names as Vale of Memory, Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Whispering Pines, Babyland. The result is sensational and Forest Lawn (disguised as "Beverly Pantheon") has achieved the minor immortality of an acid portrait by Aldous Huxley in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...