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...critic, C. J. Bulliet, triple in brass: he writes not only music but movies and the theater. The Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which is what many brokers have a lot of in 1942). The Herald-American has its patriarch, 83-year-old Herman DeVries, but usually crunches his opinions into two paragraphs, no matter what the event...
...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
Once again Barbara Stanwyck confronts us in another touching role played in her usual sloppy manner. This time she's a hard-boiled heiress who finally softens in the arms of patriarch George Brent. There is a secret marriage and a hidden child, and a few heart-rending scenes of mother love add an unconvincing emotional element before the anticipated end. All this is only too familiar to the steady moviegoer, who has probably seen Stanwyck run this stereotyped emotional gamut before. And in her case practice doesn't seem to make perfect...
...Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through a knotty plank...
...therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely to the Honorable Patrick "A. Nash, the greatest patriarch in the Democratic Party's history in all America...