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Theatric though it was, the first ending was infinitely preferable to this, and it gave Mr. Barrymore a glorious opportunity with which he did wonders, Wonders no more. We are sent home with disappointment and a happy ending. Miss Fenwick as Simonetta, charming and gracious though she be, is hopelessly miscast. She is too much the Anglo-Saxon, rather than Italian, nor does Raymend Bloomer, who takes the place of Ian Keith as Luigi, succeed altogether in convincing one of his powers as a cavalier...
...happen it did. Ever since the murder of Major Robert W. Imbrie, U. S. Vice Consul at Teheran, Persian capital (TIME, July 28), . the populace had been filled with fearful forebodings. The murder, which was called by the Setareh Iran, Teheran journal, a "bloody stain on a page of glorious history," was responsible, apart from its international complexion, for a proclamation of martial law, the resignations of Premier Reza Khan's colleagues, a plethora of arrests. Persians knew someone must die for a foul crime...
Then came the hall's decline in prestige until not many months ago it received in general usage the merited name of "the University's store house." Fire one glorious April morning last spring, released it from ignominious oblivion...
...behooves us all to pray that our Heavenly Father may continue to bless our beloved America, and lead our people in the way of the Prince of Peace; that, loving justice and hating iniquity, our glorious Republic may be endowed with spiritual power from on high, which will give an invincible strength in defense to our Army and Navy, so worthy of the admiration and confidence of the nation...
Curate Newton acquired facility in hymn-writing, decided to publish. Poet Cowper agreed to help. So, in the glorious year 1779, appeared the Olney Hymns, containing dozens of hymns which English-singing people were destined to sing ever after. Some of them: Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, Jesus, Where 'er Thy People Meet, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood...