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Tabu (Paramount). This film, if translated from pictures into words, would emerge in the form of a bare and gloomy island ballad. It tells the Polynesian legend of a love affair between an island boy and a girl who has been selected by her tribe for vestal consecration. The boy, Matahi, and the girl, Reri, escape from their own island to a more civilized one where he becomes the best pearl diver in the harbor. One night he dives into dangerous water to get a pearl which will enable them to go further away from the pursuing warrior Hitu. When...
...When the Vestal Copyright Revision Bill was choked to death (along with much other legislation) at the filibustered end of the 71st Congress (TIME, March 16), much regret was felt by all persons interested in bringing U. S. Copyright into line with that of the rest of the civilized world as embodied in the International Copyright Union (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works). A group which had special reason to resent the filibusterings of Senators King (Utah), Dill (Washington) and Thomas (Oklahoma), was the First Church of Christ, Scientist...
...vestal bill, as amended by the Senate, had become effective on June i, the copyright of the first (1875) edition of Science & Health would have been protected until 1945. As it now stands that crude, compromising edition of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's masterpiece will fall into the public domain in June...
Early editions of Science & Health have long commanded high prices from sensa-tion-mongers who have been planning to circulate the more startling passages. Photostat departments at public libraries com- plain that they are overwhelmed by the demand. Meanwhile Christian Science spokesmen declare that their chief interest in the vestal bill was their desire to protect their newspapers and magazines throughout the world...
Woman and religion have always been closely related from the Vestal Virgins right down to Amie Temple McPherson. If the General Assembly approves the recommendation of its General Council and allows woman the right to sit within the church in full equality with man, to serve as elder, evangelist, or minister, it will merely be granting its womankind rights long enjoyed in other walks of life. Where would Queen Cleopatra, or that financial wizard and presidential candidate. Victoria Woodhull, or even "Captain Victor Barker", who deceived her valet and for six years masqueraded in London as a war hero, have...