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Mary's Wedding in Westminster Abbey; The Queen Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India; Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon before the Consistory Courts at Blackfriars. He also still designs stained glass windows...
...surely the XIVth century hurly-burly can be shown to be related to the Reformation by economic ties; it is certainly significant that the English schism, in its early stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII, but was part and parcel of an economic motive which despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most...
...Article VIII...
...private nursing home at Rome last week meningitis brought Death to a prince unique in the quarrelsome and stingy house of Caetani which traces its descent with certainty for eleven centuries and boasts among its collateral ancestors two Popes, Gelasius II (1118-19) and Boniface VIII...
...month), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Ratoff, are a few of the Hollywood celebrities who are making pictures in England. Last week John Barrymore signed a contract with London Film Productions, Ltd. to act in an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, directed by Alexander Korda (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Most potent of British producing companies. which are currently paying 25% higher salaries than Hollywood, is Gaumont-British. Last week this concern announced its plans to invade the U. S. market by supplementing its distribution contracts with Fox with its own sales staff in 31 U. S. cities. And Gaumont...