Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plays that are built for actors are only as pleasant as the actors themselves. At Keith's this week "Sin Takes A Holiday" with Constance Bennett is very pleasant indeed. The story isn't much and the supporting cast has little to do, but Miss Bennett is enough for one movie...
...dogma and instructed Catholics to believe ''that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first instant of her conception, was, by a most singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the human race, preserved from all stain of Original Sin. . . ." Catholics also believe that "she had at least the graces of the first Eve before the Fall and "more." The dogma invigorated the ancient veneration of Mary. The woman Mary became an idea, and as the idea of the Immaculate Conception was designated Catholic Patroness of the U. S. Protestants...
...been forbidden to use alcohol from the laboratories for the purpose of beverages, now and forever more. After all, this is rather a tough situation down at Yale. They have always been lead to believe that they could count on those laboratories. No wonder they think it's a sin and a shameful waste. Harvard men may even be a little worried themselves, all except those who are smart enough to realize that forewarned is forearmed, and, according to a current rumor, intend to go down to New Haven by boat...
...Virtuous Sin (Paramount). A strange effort toward sophistication in the manner of Sardou, The Virtuous Sin falls between burlesque and melodrama. The plot, one of the silliest of dramatic stencils, concerns a Russian lady who saves her husband from a firing squad by making herself attractive to the General who has ordered his court-martial, only to find that she has fallen in love with the General. The General, acted as well as possible by Walter Huston, is known as "Iron Face." These are the sins of The Virtuous Sin; its single virtue is that it provides the first important...
...sunny south. Her departure was precipitated by the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act. A nine year old grandson waits her in New York. With greater political wisdom than his grandmother he read the handwriting on the green walls some months ago and fled this commonwealth steeped in sin and vice...