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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With north-country directness, perspiring Editor William James Brittain, aware that lords sign a solitary surname, dispatched a blunderling to find out if there was a Lord Turner. In a Hove telephone directory the editor's helper found the name of Sir George Robertson Turner. Thereupon Cavalcade printed and credited Sir George with a letter he had not written. In court, Sir George, an 82-year-old, devout Church of Englander, said Cavalcade's botchery had caused him great pain, for his friends began suspecting that, at his great age, he had lost his mind...
Cavalcade's back-bending apologies placated the old knight, but within a month Cavalcade's muddling had Sir George's attorneys again on the trail. While Editor Brittain was away recuperating from his strenuous July, another blunderling picked an old letter from Cavalcade's, unused type, slapped it into the August 7 issue to fill out a column. By the weirdest chance this second letter attacked Sir George for attacking Catholicism: Didactic, Semitic, would-be letter -writer George Turner should learn that in the art of good journalism lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being...
Producer Dowling has bolstered the play's shadowy situations with the best actors he could hire on either side of the Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...
...devout man, like his colleagues Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Albert Einstein, is Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton. Irreverent University of Chicago students nickname the beetle-browed physicist "Holy." Even more than most scientists he participates in the institutional activities of religion; as deacon of Hyde Park Baptist...
...JUDAS WINDOW-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). The murder of an elderly gentleman, found stabbed with an arrow in an apparently sealed room, with Sir Henry Merrivale defending a suspect caught with the corpse and a good deal of bright dialogue compensating for weaknesses in the plot. Good...