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...Press gave much notice to their doings. Soul Surgeon Buchman, who looks to the camera much like his good friend John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s cousin Percy (see p. 55), handed out envelopes full of clippings from British newspapers, said he appreciated the publicity he had gotten from "the Bishops" and the Press in England. He explained that "this is a peripatetic group, just as the disciples of Jesus. It goes wherever God guides it." He smiled amiably, as did his entourage, 17 of whom had prepared typewritten statements for the reporters, describing themselves and the manner of their...
...Shubert Company is showing great interest in the Club's present pro- duction, and it is possible that it may produce the play in New York professionally. The firm has done much help the Dramatic Club present the piece, having gotten it the German edition for translation by Martin Henry, instructor in German. The Club has a policy of presenting only those plays which have never been shown in the country, and many have been later produced on Broadway...
...stranger who dropped in on a Buchman soul-washing session might fancy that he had somehow gotten into the Sultan's palace on one of the Thousand and One Nights. But if the harsh outsider should remark that public confession of major and minor sins is called by the psychologists exhibitionism, or if anyone should suggest that the Huchman method of salvation, in its goal and in its procedure, is curiously like falling off a henhouse roof into a pile of featherbeds, that will not disturb the faithful. They will agree with a member who remarked at Briarcliff: "I cannot...
...reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes him try his hand at prophecy again?to his horror he foresees a stillborn babe. When all-loving Agnes presents him with a bouncing boy, he renounces prophecy for good; goes back with her to his home farm to learn again...
Mitchell and Frank Craven. Actors Mitchell and Craven have hair which habitually looks as if they had just gotten out of bed, and each possesses an authentic whiskey baritone. Actor Mitchell is Chief of Detectives McKinley. Actor Craven is his crony, a local police court reporter. There follow 90 min. of peerless melodrama and comedy...