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...religious theme. Most DeMille pictures have to do with such pious subjects as The Ten Commandments (1923), The King of Kings (1927), The Sign of the Cross (1932). "A religious picture never failed," says the man who was decorated with the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1928. With the Bible to inspire him, he is able to conjure up breath-taking scenes of sadism, warfare and mass debauchery on the part of ancients who did not believe in God. Since Cleopatra has nothing to do with Christianity, it lacks most of the emotional impact DeMille usually gets...
British Honduras, About the time Solomon built his temple in Jerusalem, the Mayas were developing their civilization in Central America. In the early Christian era the Mayan culture attained the peak of its splendor. The priests invented a form of writing; the mathematicians and astronomers worked out a calendar; the architects built great cities and temples; the artisan modeled in stucco, wove textiles, carved and painted with rare skill...
Palestine. In the city of Lachish, 35 mi. southwest of Jerusalem, King Rehoboam, son of Solomon, built a great wall. Beyond the wall some seasons ago a deep ditch was found. Clearing away the filling this year a British expedition led by J. L. Starkey uncovered, 60 ft. below the city level, a temple erected long before Rehoboam's wall. It was first built in the 15th Century B.C., when southern Palestine was under the political sway and religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this...
From Bagdad, Jerusalem, Damascus and Aden radios began to crackle last week: HODEIDA . . . HODEIDA . . . IMAM YAHYA OF YEMEN . . . WAHABI . . IBN SAUD . . . YEMEN . . . ABDUL AZIZ . . . YAHYA . . . YEMEN...
...people realize that Bert Haines, for years coach of Freshman crews, received a medal for bravery in action in the Holy Land during the World War. Bert led a cavalry charge that General Allenby, in command of the forces that captured Jerusalem, described as "the bravest action...