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...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"The Moldan" Symphonic Poem Smetans *"To A Wild Rose" MacDowell *Walls Seene from "Faust" Gouned *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Scherso from "A Mid Summer Night's Dream" Mandelssohn *Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Suppe *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Waltz *Song of the Volga Bargemon Arranged by Gazounov *Pomp and Circumstance Elgar

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...heretical Trotskyites read their own heretics out of the fold. Schism started when orthodox Russian Communists invaded Poland and Finland. Schachtmanites declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anti-Religion | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy, the book was a plural pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons and Polygamy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...confused with Mormonism proper is Reorganized Mormonism. After Founder Smith's death, most Mormons followed Brigham Young on a 1,500-mile trek to the Promised Land of Utah. There in 1852 Prophet Young publicly proclaimed polygamy as a divine doctrine which, he said, Founder Smith and a chosen few had secretly initiated a decade before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons and Polygamy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...chose Founder Smith's son Joseph as their president. When he died, he was in turn succeeded by his son, Frederick Madison Smith. The Reorganized Mormons claim that Young's attribution of polygamy to Joseph Smith was a base libel. Emma Hale, say they, was the prophet's first and only wife, even though the Dictionary of American Biography credits him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons and Polygamy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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