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...English titles are stated simply, and follow the French closely. Because the photography is excellent, few words are necessary. Jumping back and forth from one thread to another, the camera achieves excellent transitions, and at the same time keeps the picture from fading. Under the Paris Sky is an absorbing treatment of a day in a large city...
...Hill's hair tonic and shaving lotion. Then they helped themselves to Hill's suits. When Joseph discovered that six-footer Hill's suits didn't fit, he sat down at an old treadle sewing machine and carefully altered the trousers and sleeves. The thread broke repeatedly, and Mrs. Hill kept rethreading the needle...
...Thread for the Bride. The idea of Indianized Christianity is at least 300 years old.* There is nothing in church law to forbid monks' wearing saffron robes or following a vegetarian diet. Ultimately, following the example of Benedictine missionaries in Africa, Dom Philip hopes for permission to recite the liturgy in Hindi, India's official language...
...Benedictines of Salem encourage Indian Christians to keep as much of their native custom as possible, e.g., Christian brides do not wear wedding rings, but tie a thread around their necks as Hindus do. The monastery itself has fitted snugly into the life of the surrounding communities. Local farmers now come there to get medicine for their sick and to look over the Catholic sanyasis' agricultural methods. Said one Salem Hindu: "They look more like our type of sanyasis. Maybe there's something in their religion." This is the kind of talk that Dom Philip likes to hear...
Assembly Line. In Madison Heights, Va., 13-month-old Martha Lula Coleman started to swallow a piece of nylon sewing thread, choked, brought up the string and a 10?-store whistle she had swallowed three months before...