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...chooses. Since 1932 he has appeared in 13 pictures, established himself as one of the three or four actors of his generation capable of carrying a production. He was born in 1888 in Cincinnati where his father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin, Walter Connolly made his professional début in 1909. Just after the War, he married Actress Nedda Harrigan. Fond of horse races, Walter Connolly wanted to be a jockey until he found it interfered with his diet. He weighs 190 lb. stands...
...handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel prospered. With the decrease in business, Mr. Ballard made ready to sell out and retire. In casting about for a buyer two years ago, he met Rev. Hugo F. Sloctemyer, Jesuit president of Xavier University in Cincinnati. Would the Jesuits be interested in buying at a low price? No, said Father Sloctemyer. But learning that Mr. Ballard wished to have his hotel maintained intact, as a landmark, the Jesuit promised to help him try to dispose of it. Months passed and the business association...
...continue his search, this time with several helpers. Alfred Haine was told to stay in his inn. At ten o'clock a heavy automobile roared up and then Alfred Haine knew that something dreadful had happened. Out stepped two of King Albert's personal aides, Count Xavier de Grunne and General Baron Jacques de Dixmunde with a doctor. They joined the searching parties crawling over the cliffs, shouting to each other, their flashlights flickering like wintry fireflies...
...Play to commemorate its deliverance from pestilence.* But many a Roman Catholic parish offers some kind of play or pageant. Jesuits and Franciscans have given performances in San Francisco. Chicago has an annual and Milwaukee a biennial sacred play. A nine-act drama, The Passion, is given at St. Xavier College in Cincinnati. Last week as Lent opened, pious spectacles began to appear...
...Then, if the cause is successful elaborate ceremonies are held in St. Peter's in Rome. All this runs to money. The Roman Catholic faithful are giving sums which may eventually total as much as 1,000,000 lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart,* on whose case hearings were in progress last week at Chicago. Youngest of 13 children, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. She founded her sisterhood in 1880. Saved as a child from drowning, she had a lifetime horror...