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Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...
Comfortable Romanovs. Asked how many of the Imperial Family are safely out of Russia and in comfortable circumstances, the Grand Duke Alexander exclaimed: "Comfortable! We are none of us comfortable! But I understand you-perhaps there are 30 of us who are what you call 'in comfortable circumstances.' There is my wife and I have six children.* Perhaps there are a few more than 30 of the Imperial Family who have enough to buy the few things we want. I write books, and now I lecture. I teach not a religion but Spirituality that is in all religions...
...monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse for Paris...
...understand the significance of The Kingdom of God, it is necessary to consider the circumstances of its production. The play was a Spanish one, by G. Martinez Sierra, offered by Lee Shubert. For its Manhattan premiere, the Shuberts had provided a brand new theatre named, after the most famous actress in America, the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The occasion was attended by notables. As well as notables there were play-reviewers who, chastened by Actress Barrymore's rebuke, later wrote that the play was bad and that she gave a beautiful performance...
...faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...