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...Living (RKO Radio) whisks off in lyric pursuit of that frolicking wisp, The Awful Truth (TIME, Nov. 1), winds up chasing its own tail. Sprightly Comedienne Irene Dunne is a gifted musi-comedy star upon whose purse strings depends a chiseling family. Unbidden to the rescue leaps Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a well-intentioned masher with a way of laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when...
...luckier than any of these laboring people, until last spring, were the 400 families in the parish of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Millvale, a poor little town on the north bank of the Allegheny just above Pittsburgh's mills. Then one day in April an agile wisp of a man with a soft beard came to live in the parish house with Father Albert Zagar. Scaffolding went up in the church and every day at early mass Croatian women could see how far along the church's new artist had come with his murals. By last...
...girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short cut to the Orient; Parliament had a standing reward of ?20,000 to the lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still...
Last week in Los Angeles Rev. A. (for Alton) Earl Lee, 39, onetime disciple of Aimee Semple McPherson, set out in his small Immanuel Temple to better the marathoning records of Preacher Brown and Dr. Mdodana. Preacher Lee, a curly-haired, wisp-mustached University of California graduate, declared he would preach continuously for 60 hours. He hired a nurse and dietitian, a portable microphone, had food, wearing apparel and a rubdown table placed in his vestry. Subject of his sermon: "The Deity of God in Jesus Christ...
...three maps gave no latitude or longitude; the fourth, strangely enough, gave both. Equally luckily for Author Wilkins and his friend, the island in question is not on any modern map or chart. Soon there will be another expedition to have another go at the will-o'-the-wisp of Captain Kidd's treasure. And Author Wilkins will sign on for the voyage...