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...evening, feeling that he had expressed himself, he bundled off home. Next day, Mr. George Bernard Shaw used a spare five minutes to write a letter to the London Times. Said he: "The Memorial is unquestionably the real thing, with all the power of stone, the illusion of strenuous passion, that live design can give. . . . I've a great deal of sympathy with the people who hate the Epstein sample. Why should not these people have a sanctuary all to themselves? ... If Fay Compton or Gladys Cooper would pose as Rima with a stuffed pigeon on each wrist...
Lost-A Wife. Greta Nissen, out of Norway, brings to view her wild blonde hair and perfect poise. Torn from her own engagement party by "Bet-a-Thousand Tony" (Adolph Menjou), she marries him and as instantly loses him to the superior passion of gambling. She rebels, divorces, regains him. She is, in short, victorious over both the audience and her husband...
...Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more. Noah is "accredited with having discovered the process of making wine." Joseph is referred to with consummate discretion: "Presumably being attractive of person, he suffered from a malicious and entirely unfounded accusation leveled at him by Potiphar's wife -whose passion Joseph did not share." Obadiah, says Author Allen, "is a very common name in the Scriptures and none of its bearers has any claim to particular distinction." Neither, it may be added, has Author Allen's book. It is entertaining, harmless, perhaps useful...
Blindness Partly Due to Passion...
Again our failure to see clearly is due partly to passion that blinds us often selfish, ignoble passion, impatience with those who oppose us, jealously, vindictiveness, fear, or avarice of wealth and fame. Sometimes the passion springs from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for the success of a cause in whose righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning...