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...David Copperfield, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went to vast expense and trouble. Before assembling his cast, Producer David Selznick journeyed to England with Director George Cukor and Scenarist Howard Estabrook. They brought back Author Hugh Walpole, to add his famed name to Scenarist Estabrook's act briefly as the Vicar of Blunderstone in the film. Five hundred boys were tested for the part of David before little Freddie Bartholomew of Wiltshire, England was picked. The picture cost approximately $1,000,000 and took a year to make. The result of all this money and mind, time and talent...
Priest McGuigan got his start as secretary to Bishop O'Leary of Charlottetown in his native province, Prince Edward Island. When his Bishop became Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta in 1920, the youngish priest went along, still as secretary. Successively chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese, he demonstrated his particular bent as rector of St. Joseph's Major Seminary. When in 1930 he went to Saskatchewan, Archbishop McGuigan found a fine archiepiscopal palace, no seminary. He gave up his palace, went to live with his priests, founded a seminary. Likewise he commended himself quickly to his Church...
...unthinkable," Pope Pius XI was reported to have said last week, "that pictures of Christ's vicar or his sacred functions should appear on the very screens on which films offending the fundamental principles of Christian morals and common decency are projected...
...Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president of the British Oölogists Union, also bought two eggs...
...Moines, Iowa was installed Most Rev. Gerald Thomas Bergan as Roman Catholic bishop succeeding the late Most Rev. Thomas Drumm. Born in Peoria 42 years ago, Bishop Bergan has been priest, chancellor, vicar general in that diocese. An able athlete in college (St. Viator, Bourbonnais, Ill.), he was a brilliant student at North American College in Rome, where he was ordained...