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...name for his followers. Now 70, Bishop Tomlinson bustles from state to state holding conventions, ordaining ministers, preaching with Fundamentalist fervor. In Jamaica Tabernacle, decorated last week to resemble the Ship of Zion, gathered 4,000 persons to hear their bishop's exhortations. They sang, shouted, wept, sometimes wriggled and danced in exuberant piety. This week the Church of God's convention was to end in a "Grand Climax Service, with the General Overseer and Monster Water Baptismal Service...
...actors for the most part refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently by the spectacle of a play faithfully produced in the manner of 1843, when Phineas Taylor Barnum first presented it, and people wept for the young wife (Dortha Duckworth) when her handsome husband (Hal Conklin) took to drink, rejoiced when good Banker Rencelaw brought him back to virtue and probity from a tavern shed...
...deportation. He employed an English barrister, Alexander Mango, to appeal his case to the Court of Cassation (Turkish Supreme Court). When the Turkish attorney general visited him he got more comforts: an armchair, a stove instead of a brazier to warm his cell. Often he was depressed but seldom wept...
Widow Kahn and the banker's second son, Musician Roger Wolfe Kahn, were waiting at the door. Mrs. Kahn wept so bitterly when she saw the coffin that she could not bring herself to announce the funeral arrangements. For three days the body lay in the hushed house of many rooms. Through the gloomy light of Manhattan afternoons gleamed the soft faces and figures of the dead man's favorite Botticellis and Rembrandts. On the fourth day the body was taken to the Kahn estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. where for 14 summers Otto Kahn...
...walking the streets with a great cross on his chest, exhorting the villagers to seek God. His last dance was for a society function. He made a cross on the floor, danced with such fury that the audience sat frozen with fright. Diaghilev visited him once after that, wept and said: "It is my fault, what shall I do?" Madame Nijinskaya ends her book with the prayer she said when she first saw Nijinsky dance. There follows a list of people who have stood by him through his illness. There are only five names: the late Paul Dupuy, Mrs. William...