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Legally and technically George VI was every inch as much a King the moment after Edward's abdication was signed as he was after last week's ceremony. What went on in the Abbey was a purely religious rite sanctifying King George as a monarch, anointing him as a persona mixta (half priest, half layman) and inheritor of the divine right of kings. All through the three-hour ceremony, the most important person there was not the King, his nobles or his ministers, but a hawk-nosed old gentleman with a cream-&-gold cope who stood...
...powerful contender for succeeding contracts appeared at once in the person of suave, socialite John Russell Pope of Manhattan and Newport. From the drawing boards of conservative Architect Pope have already come the Scottish Rite Temple on 16th Street and the new Archives Building. Easily he persuaded elderly Mr. Mellon that he would be the ideal architect for the proposed Mellon Gallery (TIME...
...automats in each station and has filled them with disgusting candied gum. With an automatic movement of the hand the people extract from these automats pieces of sweetish gum, and they grind it with the automatic chewing of their jaws. . . . It looks like a religious rite, like some silent prayer to God-Capital...
...history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show as occupying its own specially constructed tabernacle with a cast of 3,000. This paranoiac aspiration did not quite come true, but Mr. Weisgal did rent from the Scottish Rite the vast old Manhattan Opera House around the corner from the Pennsylvania Station. Mr. Bel Geddes began to tear out the theatre's interior, a cast of 220 began rehearsing and the premiere was set for Dec. 23, 1935. First thing that happened was that the stage required costly...
...when Franklin Roosevelt shuffled out on the egg-rolling lawn behind the White House. He promptly became the centre of a large gathering of mixed gender, for it was the annual occasion on which he shares the limelight with its authors, his annual photograph with White House newshawks. The rite performed, the crowd followed him into the oval reception room on the ground floor of the White House. There he sat and made gay quips as if he had nothing in the world to do. Actually he was a dreadfully busy man, for that day he was having a final...