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...beauty that it seemed to have been written yesterday, a play by the greatest dramatic poet who ever lived. It had never been done before.* For Laurence Olivier, 38 (who plays Henry and directed and produced the picture), the event meant new stature. For Shakespeare, it meant a new splendor in a new, vital medium. Exciting as was the artistic development of Laurence Olivier, last seen by U.S. cinemaddicts in films like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, his production of Henry V was even more exciting...
...justify God's ways to man. He was almost as simple as the simplest of Wordsworth, but like Wordsworth he was capable of Miltonic splendor...
During his first song, Handel's Let Me Weep, Lord!, De Luca wept. So did most of his audience, for the great baritone voice had lost none of its splendor; if anything, it was even more musical...
Like many a self-made man, he is pleased with his new-won splendor. He accepts Hollywood's lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...
Unlike the splendor of Rome's parallel gesture, the Geneva meeting was stark and austere. Only the colorful garb of an Anglican bishop here & there relieved the somber black-robed meeting of hundreds of Protestant churchmen. From Calvin's pulpit in the gaunt Cathedral of St. Pierre the speakers discussed their project : a World Council of Churches which would bring the joint influence of Protestant and Orthodox Churches to bear on world affairs. Last week's decision : the first council will meet in Holland or Denmark in 1948. Meanwhile, the World Council will continue material relief...