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...Harmon, N. Y. where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write...
Back to earth comes David, not as David, to be sure, but as David's pious uncle. Since both parts are taken by the same actor (Thomas Mosely), the disguise is thin. He appears to Matt and Denny, members of the lynching mob, forgives them for their crime, pleads for a better understanding between the races. This action so moves Matt, the real murderer of the girl, that he and Denny decide that he (Matt) should be hanged. This is finally done with the same old rope in the same old tree where the Negro died...
Josef Stalin's old teacher, Orthodox Father Bogoyavlenski, regaled pious Stuttgart Germans with anecdotes of the days when Russia's future Dictator was a schoolboy at Tiflis' Theological Seminary. Everyone knows that Stalin's mother tried to make him a priest (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930), and every Russian knows that for 300 years at least Russian scoffers have baited Russian believers with the following rigmarole: "I believe that Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread, but I do not believe they weren't hungry afterward. I believe that water can be turned...
...Worse still, pious Dr. Gray discovered that the exhibition was sponsored by Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, acknowledged one of the Empire's foremost scientists. In a twinkling Dr. Gray cancelled the exhibit, turned the rascals...
...Sober, pious, less dramatic than it should have been, The Man Who Played God has the distinction of that crafty dignity which George Arliss injects into all his impersonations. His thin smile, his high nose, his punctilious diction relieve the antiquated arguments of the story (by Gouverneur Morris) which will be joyfully hailed by those who regard the cinema as an agent for good...