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...MOODY: A WORKER IN SOULS- Gamaliel Bradford-Doran ($3.50). "Are you a Christian?" This was Dwight Lyman Moody's habitual salute to those whose souls he wished to preserve for eternity. Gamaliel Bradford, wishing to preserve the heroic figure of the evangelist, asks a few questions in return. Since D. L. Moody is no longer alive to answer the questions, Author Bradford.must supply his own replies. A wise and searching biographer, he explains very credibly a person who, in an age of great preachers, Was perhaps the tallest and most mighty among them...
...Night. This is one more airy and erratic farce which tries not very successfully to add to current aeronautical excitement. The plot concerns an easygoing taxicab driver and a thieving millionaire who head their plane for the Manhattan Stock Exchange and arrive, with surprising ease, in Russia. This funny & heroic feat enables the taxicab driver to marry the millionaire's daughter...
With the Navy measure approved, Premier Raymond Poincare settled down to the heroic task of getting his budget through the Chamber before New Year's and succeeded after an all-night session lasting until 6 a. m. Estimated totals: Revenue 42,496,616,000 francs; expenditures 42,441,457,000; balance...
Signer Benito Mussolini abandoned, last week, his most heroic financial policy: the attempt to increase the value of Italian paper money until it should stand at par (TIME, Sept. 13, 1926 et seq.). Admission that this policy is impracticable was shrewdly avoided by Il Duce up to last week, when he found a way to mask failure behind a dazzling cabinet decree. This document, issued with a triumphal flourish, establishes the lira on a gold basis? not, however, at par (five lira to the dollar), but at 19 to the dollar, the new ratio being slightly lower than the ordinary...
...discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust, an aged dissatisfied philosopher with a voice a little pinched, and went down on another, a cavalier Faust, the creation of Mephistopheles' evil genius...