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...born, became Voroshilovsk. Throughout the Soviet Union several hundred organizations and buildings were also named last week after Comrade Voroshilov. The entire populace, taught, by the Soviet press that a "Capitalistic invasion" of Russia may come at any hour, looks to the Commissar of War as its prospective savior, cheers him wildly when he rides out hard-eyed and unsmiling, his breast bedight with three Soviet medals, his bul let head surmounted by the turnip-shaped Red Army helmet...
...year's honeymoon and study. They returned to Manhattan, she to set up a household, he to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Young, bold and persuasive, that same summer he organized for his pastorate the Church of the Atonement, now called Church of Our Savior's Atonement, important Lutheran congregation in upper Manhattan. Seven years ago Mrs. Knubel died. After two years' grief he married Jennie C. Christ of Manhattan. Presidency of the United Lutheran Church caused him to drop pastorate. Now he commutes daily from his New Rochelle home to his Manhattan office...
...Savior-hero of Alsace-Lorraine is dry, statistical old Raymond Poincaré, War-time president of France. When he went a-visiting last week with Mme Poincare to Kayserberg, Alsatians were happy, thronged Kayserberg's Hotel de Ville. A pretty girl with flaxen hair stepped from their midst and spoke with plain dignity...
...made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice. And since there is nothing in public life today remotely approaching the Lincoln legend, .perhaps Director Griffith's judgment...
...intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he decides to investigate spiritualism, he does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained...