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...after a generation of expansion, construction and landscaping, diligent Promoter Eaton (he prefers to be known simply as The Builder) has developed Forest Lawn to the point where "nature herself seems to have planned these acres for their consecrated purpose." Over the grounds which Copywriter Bruce Barton once dubbed "a first step up toward Heaven" are ranged "the greatest collection of large marble statuary figures in the country." Other works of art include a vast stained-glass window reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, an 87-ft. Tower of Legends which is also a reservoir holding...
...gloomy statues are allowed in The Happy Cemetery-and the ban extends to representations of Christ on the cross. The Builder is impatient with portrayals of The Master as "a suffering being, of joyless visage." He is still hunting a marble Christ "who really smiles." Pursuing his ideal, Promoter Eaton once inspected 998 Christs of all sizes in Italy. None of them smiled...
...Builder has given various parts of his handiwork such symbolic names as Vale of Memory, Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Whispering Pines, Babyland. The result is sensational and Forest Lawn (disguised as "Beverly Pantheon") has achieved the minor immortality of an acid portrait by Aldous Huxley in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...
...dictator's walled-in estate, ate at his lavish table, came back a changed man. When Trujillo visited the U.S., Ham Fish spoke at a dinner for him: "General, you have created a golden age for your country. . . . You will go down in history . . . as a builder greater than all the Spanish conquistadores together." Shortly thereafter the $25,000 was deposited to Ham Fish's account in a New York bank...
...sentimental journey. First Ronnie (Roddy McDowall) and the empire builder fall out over Rochester, N.Y. The old codger insists that it is "a State somewhat northeast of the New England Colony." The boy knows better, and says so. Then his sister, Sheila (Peggy Ann Garner), gets trainsick, throws up for miles until the Paris train is stopped by the advancing Nazis. Soon Rose (Fleurette Zama) joins the party-at Ronnie's invitation. Snorts Woolley: "I do not propose to become the Mecca for every unfortunate child...