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Grace George, 50, is the wife of Producer William Brady, the mother of William Brady Jr. Actress Alice Brady is her stepdaughter. Born in Manhattan, educated in a convent, she is devout, seldom misses confession or mass, often attends church before she returns home after a late party. She speaks French excellently, translates French plays for her own amusement. She usually looks as if she had just left a master modiste. She likes to swim, to be alone, to play tennis and bridge. She customarily waits a long time between engagements. Among her plays: The Girl I Left Behind...
...years the same swart, devout Italian has delivered at the Vatican every morning the same sealed box, calling for it later...
...Never!" shouted the devout deliveryman. "Pigs of policemen! You shall not touch with your dirty fingers the Pope's bread...
...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (not to be confused with Wyndham Lewis, author of Time and Western Man) is a scholarly, lively, devout, belligerent Roman Catholic, living in France. In company with his compatriots Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Montague Summers, his Catholicism makes him an apologist for the Middle Ages, a contemner of his own. Author D. B. Wyndham Lewis has also written François Villon...
...France, too, a miracle was reported. Last week General Gaston de Sonis (1825-87), devout Catholic, daring soldier, veteran of African campaigns and of the War of 1870, was being considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...