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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas of Cincinnati, one of the ablest Roman Catholic prelates in the Midwest, took the lead in forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white cassock and red skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen...
...Moines, Iowa was installed Most Rev. Gerald Thomas Bergan as Roman Catholic bishop succeeding the late Most Rev. Thomas Drumm. Born in Peoria 42 years ago, Bishop Bergan has been priest, chancellor, vicar general in that diocese. An able athlete in college (St. Viator, Bourbonnais, Ill.), he was a brilliant student at North American College in Rome, where he was ordained...
...stop the furious squabbling among Nazi groups bent on founding a 100% Teuton religion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, himself a Roman Catholic, recently ordered them to unite as Die Deutsche Glaubens Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting ''Back to Wotan!" Others cautiously preparing to argue for "mild revision of the Bible to make it less Jewish." Keynoters were Nazi Editor Fritz Gericke and Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 65-year-old Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff...
...Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious eye on all pictures starring Norma Shearer (Mrs. Irving Thalberg), will next see that actress performing as a well-behaved Victorian poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Fredric March and Charles Laughton. Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Robert...
...reading on the observation platform of ST. PETER he asked: "Can you use an altar boy?" Yes, Rev. Cornelius Edward Murphy could. Next morning at mass he employed the services of the first moppet, who had sent his small brother to negotiate the job. This week Father Murphy, youngish Roman Catholic priest, was to take ST. PETER to other Long Island towns, celebrating mass on railroad sidings for all who cared to come. Then he would travel with his Pullman chapel through New England. All this was to publicize, and raise money for, his missionary work in North Carolina. Many...