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...peddled in the U.S. as a spectacle. As spectacle, this Gabriel Pascal production does itself proud-from stupendous Technicolor replicas of Ptolemaic Egypt down to intimate studies of the young Queen's décolletage. But all the munificent movie art does not conceal art of a rarer, riper kind: the dialogue for this superspectacle was written by a great master of prose and of wit, George Bernard Shaw. By & large, the playing is worthy of the dialogue...
...coincidence Attorney General Walter D. Van Riper, who had come in to clean out Hague's bailiwick, was being tried last week in Federal Court on embarrassing charges-dealing in black-market gasoline. And Hague's opposition, the "Liberation ticket," had split in mid-campaign. Four of its members were accusing a fifth of selling out to the Boss...
...this everything, M.G.M.'s Lady Be Good has salvaged only two of the Gershwin melodies: the title song and Fascinating Rhythm. Around these still glittering butterfly relics three studio scripters (Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper, John McClain) have spun one of the longest, dullest plots in many a cinema season...
Converting 1% of the Chinese in 100 years is not in itself a cheering statistic for the missionaries, but the time may be riper than they realize for a far broader acceptance of their faith. China is today the only great non-Christian State with a Christian head. The conversion of Constantine is not the only case where through political events Christianity has come into sudden power after long years of struggling growth. After the victory at Tolbiac 1,445 years ago, heathen Clovis and his army of 3,000 Franks were baptized in gratitude. Something not far different might...
...favor of the affirmative and opposing Harvard were Howard Van Riper and Stanley M. Brown of Dartmouth. Three members of the Boston Bar acted as judges, George Roewer, Fred W. Carrol, and Harry Bergson...