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...England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul, John a happy farmer who loved the earth and all its foison. Anne chose John, sending away Eleazar half mad with sanctity and lust...
With Easter's devil-may-care father to take them to circuses and horse races; with Plenty of ponies in the enormous stables and old Jer Donohughe's hounds to follow, it seems to the children that pleasures will never end. But along comes the War. Easter's father is killed. Follows Ireland's revolutionary unrest. Encircling Puppetstown, the lovely mountains Mandoran, Moncooin and the Black Stall are infested with Sinn Feiners. Aunts Dicksie and Brenda still keep open house, entertain the Army officers from nearby. One day one of them, motoring with Brenda, is ambushed...
Bridal Wise (by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; Sigourney Thayer, producer). Playwrights Hackett & Goodrich wrote an eminently satisfactory comedy two seasons ago called Up Pops the Devil. Their present piece, staged by that wise theatrician Frank Craven, again reveals the team's genuine gift for comedy...
...ride. With Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 73. chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Aeronaut Wright climbed aboard the car which straddles the channel, grinned happily as it scooted along, throwing spray from its towing apparatus. (Next day Mr. Wright visited Kitty Hawk. N. C.; strolled about Kill Devil Hill where he and his late brother Wilbur made the first airplane flight, saw the memorial beacon being erected there...
...Buchman's methods in militant religion are superficially novel, essentially age-old. He is more genteel than Billy Sunday, more subtle than Almes MacPherson. Instead of clawing the devil before thousands in temple or arena, he carries on painless soul surgery in the well upholstered living room of the rich. Here about the fire-side boys and girls "come clean" and "make their souls feel wonderful...