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Author Clark includes a good many descriptions of Roman churches ("It is all physical and close; God is not up in any Gothic shadows . . . The Anglo-Saxon, hunting everywhere for French cathedrals, feels his mind threatened like a lump of sugar in a cup of tea"). She also has a lot to say about the modern Romans ("Their voices carry like rockets .. . An American ... feels exposed . .."). And she tries very hard to evoke the past in her description of Hadrian's ruined villa at Tivoli...
...cast is not merely content to keep the audience happy. In one number, "Chi-ri-bim," emcee Lou Saxon divides the audience into two parts, the Litvaks and the Galitzianas, and tries to get it to join in on the chorus. After a couple of futile tries, three thousand people begin to clap and sing along with the actors...
Last week, as another strenuous holiday season closed, two customs seemed marked for uprooting. Roman Catholic priests and lay organizations denounced the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown...
...part of a campaign by Roman Catholic clergy against the "paganization" of Christmas. It drew an approving and thoroughly Gallic nod from the Most Rev. Maurice Feltin, Archbishop of Paris: "The Christian significance of Christmas is debased by this legend [of Santa Claus] originating in the dense Saxon forests...
According to Editor Pine, only three British families can prove descent through the male line from the Saxons who invaded Britain in the 5th Century. These are the Ardens (one was Shakespeare's mother), the Berkeleys and the Swintons. And only three can prove male descent from the Companions of William the Conqueror in 1066: Malet (or Mallet or Mellat), Giffard, and De Marris. Even King George VI's Saxon descent is through the female line; about 100,000 living Britons can claim legitimate descent from such royal ancestry. Pine calls Edward III (1312-77) the crossroads...