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Result was a scenario "unconsciously written" in the very form Hollywood scripters use for an "original screen treatment." Joanne called her script Joan of the Ark. It tells how an old lady (Aunt Sis) finds a baby afloat in a box during a flood, rescues it and brings it up. Cut to the child, a little girl, age 14, name Joan...
Still aboard the shanty boat, Aunt Sis tells Joan the story of Noah's Ark in terms of the Ohio River. When Aunt Sis dies, Joan stays on the boat, begins collecting two of every kind of animal, stealing, when necessary, from nearby farms. Eventually she has quite a menagerie, imagines she is a modern Noah. Romance comes when Joan is spying on a rich boy at a garden party...
...minister of the Episcopal Church. Within the framework of that church he founded, 40 years ago, his order which followed the Franciscan rule and dress, and aimed to send out missionaries to the heathen. In 1909 he took the Society of the Atonement (17 members) and its affiliated Sis ters of the Atonement into the Roman Church. Under his Franciscan name of Father Paul James Francis, he was ordained to the priesthood...
...plants were clogged with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example of the Finns' plight and of sisu was contained in a letter from a soldier to his sis ter, which Correspondent Leland Stowe cabled to the Chicago Daily News. Excerpts...
Harvard's newly reorganized Ski Club will have its first official get-together tonight in Dunster House at 8 o'clock, when members and future members will assemble for a program of entertainment capped by the scheduled talk of Miss Marian "Sis" McKean, one of the United States' best skiers...