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...told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls. In 1920 along came Rev. O. J. Kvale (pronounced Quail) and contested with him for the Republican nomination. He told the electors that Volstead was an atheist. Kvale beat Volstead in the primaries...
...however, Kvale ran again as an Independent, and whether Volstead had been irreparably injured by the charge of "atheist" or whether he had simply lost his hold on Granite Falls, he was defeated...
...apparation that ever sipped absinthe for breakfast. Miss Grace Mencken, as the sister Nana, succeeded in raising the gooseflesh of horror on one member of the audience, at least, for the first time since the Phantom of the Opera was unmasked. As Chico, a handsome, Apache-like figure, turned atheist after burning candles and praying without avail to St. Antoine for a job as street washer, a golden-haired wife and enough money to make "le grand four" in a Parisian taxicab, Mr. Louis D' Arclay is the dominating and driving force of action. His remarkable facility of facial...
...vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss as Mrs. Midget, romanticist atheist--they do not quite approach reality. The one is too boisterously appreciative of the buffoonery in her part; the other is too tautly expressive of the emotive possibilities of hers. Yet it is but fair to admit that they are attempt-a tremendous undertaking. This "painted ship upon a painted ocean...
...Damned Souls." Last week eleven young men and two young women, students at the Baptist co-educational University of Rochester (N. Y.) defied the heavens. There was, they had decided, no God. They were atheists. And it was important that the world know this. They publicly proclaimed themselves "damned souls," and waited for the heavens to fall. But the heavens fell not. Nor did the waters rise and the thunder rumble and the lightning strike them in their tracks. Not so much as a slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that...