Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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), one of the persecuted Christians, and Claudette Colbert, who plays Nero's wife, Poppaea, do very well, but Charles Laughton, as the fat, indolent Nero, gives the picture its life blood...
...called on President Hoover. Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi, 60, is tall, pink and scholarly. He lived quietly in Washington, dined out occasionally with oldish men at the more sedate embassies, kept a "blind" telephone number which even Catholic organizations in Washington did not know. He is likely to be appointed prefect of the Holy Congregation of Propaganda, a high position of which the incumbent is called the "Red Pope" because of his world-wide influence in missionary affairs. One of the first things Cardinal-elect Fumasoni-Biondi did in Rome last week was sing mass at Sacred Heart convent where...
...statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches so successfully in and about the rogue's chateau that when he has rescued his flower girl by a narrow margin they will...
Spoke M. Gallard, prefect of the Cote d'Or, witheringly: "No animal is game that one does not hunt for sport with a weapon. Does one need a gun for snails? Does one perhaps require horses and a pack of hounds? Does one sound a horn? But no! One simply pulls him off a wall with the fingers. That, messieurs, is not sport...
...Long known as "The Bishop," although until last week he was only Prefect Apostolic, Monsignor Turquetil has not been coarsened by taking fishes' snouts in his mouth or by eating raw meat when fuel was lacking. He is urbane, worldly even. He is reported to have invented a new system of bridge-bidding but he insists that "too much stress is being laid on this side of my affairs." On his way to Montreal last month Monsignor Turquetil watched four men playing bridge. One bid a spade His partner, with four aces and three kings, passed. "I took one look...