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Neither an exotic nor a professional prophet, 42-year-old Professor Lips does not go off the deep end with his late eminent countryman, Oswald Spengler, who prophesied an onslaught on Europe by a black horde led by white adventurers. But he does not present savages as the pitiably naive creatures they are in most white imaginations. In fact, Professor Lips points out, North America and Australia have been the only continents actually wrested from savages by the white race, which in South America has been mostly absorbed and in India and China repelled from all but a few footholds...
...Coming of the Lord . . . Great Confusion Upon Earth . . . September 16, 1936 was announced last year in Manhattan by a Mrs. Edna Bandler in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a magazine called The Prophet. Last week, Mrs. Bandler turned up in the news again, conducting a "Week of Prophecy" in Town Hall, daily donning a white veil and prophesying for the 25 to 100 people who dropped in, admission free, to hear...
Next morning the nation heard news that made the Springfield Republican a prophet of doom and caused Artist Woolf to fly his drawing to New York for immediate publication in the Times. The leader of the Administration forces in the Senate and the man who refused to count unhatched chickens, Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, was found dead (see p. 10). The penciled signature on Artist Woolf's drawing was one of the last copies of that loyal autograph and, at the very hour in the night when the Springfield Republican was coming off the presses...
...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...
...sole significance is that it definitely establishes Actor Winninger, with Victor Moore, George Arliss and Wallace Beery, as another contender for the position of the late Will Rogers in the affection of U. S. cinemaddicts. Typical shot: Cappy delivering his favorite oath, "By the holy pink-toed prophet," when he learns that, despite his instructions to the contrary, Bill and Margaret have eloped to China...