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...their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous old seadog who settles nearby. When Patriarch Hector Macrae dies soon after a terrible "rowing" to settle a family feud, Peter becomes patriarch in his stead, besets Fergus to his fall...
...outhouses which Mr. Sale wrote and performed in vaudeville. Though the title is a delusion, it is not likely to function as a snare. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Specialist will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with...
Died, Hyrum Gibbs Smith, 52, fourth Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, great-great-grandson of Hyrum Smith (brother of Founder Joseph Smith); of pneumonia; in Salt Lake City...
Approval by the Orthodox Church at Ecumenical Council and by a Church Assembly in England will be necessary before the Anglican and Orthodox churches are officially wed. When that time comes, standing at the side of the Archbishop of Canterbury, two against Rome, will be the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople. This high office, spiritual headship of some 120 million souls throughout the world, is held by the ascetic, bearded, polylingual Greek Priest Demetrios Maniatis who was elected by a majority of his brother metropolitans and invested as Photios II three autumns ago (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). Born on Prinkipo Island...
...since 886 had there been a Patriarch named Photios. And not since 787 (second Nicaean Council, before East and West split) has there been held an Ecumenical Synod of the Orthodox Eastern Church. Next June at Mount Athos, Greece's monastic republic (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929), will be held a prosynod to lay the groundwork for an Ecumenical Synod (probably in 1934) whereat the theological problems of twelve centuries, including Anglican unity, will be deliberated...