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THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Mary of Nazareth

... Borden, writes with dignity and restraint. Her heroine, Zillah, is an English girl who marries a Mormon. Till I read The Proselyte, I had always regarded a Mormon as a kind of human mon ster but Joseph is quite an ordinary young man, and Zillah, whose family ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1540 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

SECTS and SEX

... explanation of what used to be called the facts of life. n righam Young, the Mormon Leader iJ and Founder of Salt Lake City (Jar- rolds 18s.), is the work of the great Mormon's daughter, Mrs. Susa Young Gates. It is a highly respectable book, but then ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1670 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE & LAMBKINS

... Fortunately Bodley enjoyed a good conceit of himself when he was alive. A few years before his death he wrote When seventeen Mormon widows proposed to him write their new novels and bio graphies as translations from the German, Russian or Czecho-Slo- vakian ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1589 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

Books The Admiral, the Ambassador and the Servant-girl

... LUCAS, in Friendly Relations tells, with humour and charm, a story of family life Books (Continued from page 53) novel on Mormonism, Wives of the Prophet (Rich and Cowan, 8s. 6d.). Mr. Bell describes the early days of the new church, and his story surrounds ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1936
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1610 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

A Fine Short-Story Writer:

... sock on the jaw for the appeal to the organised forces of the police. Mr. Shaw goes on to praise the common sense of the old Mormons, who saw in poly gamy, not an opportunity for some fun, but their only chance of increasing their numbers and saving them ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA: Myself and Eight Girls

... sh little boys, rising from log-cabins to White Houses, Walt Whitman's tramps and tram-guards, Pennsyl- vanian Quakers,- Mormons, Sousa-ites and Hitchy-Kooers, pork packers, American soldiers coming in at the tail of the War and thinking they are wagging ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1129 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: QUEER FISH, AT THE APOLLO; THE FAIR OAK PLAYERS AT ROGATE; THE MIDSHIPMAID, AT THE SHAFTESBURY

... nothing of the lower deck developed into a riot of agitation. Romances spring up like mushrooms, and even Abie-Seaman Pook, the Mormon of the Mediterranean, ac cording to Bundy, finds a lady's maid a very stiff and proper person to entertain. There must be ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A SINCERE BIOGRAPHY OF STELLA BENSON:: R. Ellis Roberts' Fine Portrayal of a Brilliant, Elusive Personality

... MacPherson's temple were other places of call, and, after a brief stop at Salt Lake City, and a not so brief discourse on the Mormon creed, Mr. Harmsworth was on his way home to a comfortable five-day cross ing and the writing of this high-spirited travel ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1750 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... John D. Rockefeller, Jnr., Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, Shirley Temple, the President of the Mormon Church, Miss Anita Loos, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jnr., and many others are drawn with an easy spontaneity. The book is further ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1957 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... the curate's dress, for he was a curate, we must remember, of eighty years ago, has given him the dress and appearance of a Mormon preacher, allowing a different interpretation to be put upon the whole picture. And yet even so it is a genuine sentiment ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2362 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS: Shane Leslie Joins the Ever-Growing Band of Re-Discoverers of America; An Entertaining ..

... rattles along under such head ings as I Discover the New New York, I Visit the Operaand the Metropolitan Gallery, I Study the Mormons and the Veterans, I Meet Father Coughlin, and so on. It is when we reach the chapter where I Discover the American Woman ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1993 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review