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THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE: A new study of Napoleon's first wife; from Mormonism to apartheid; and this week's tally ..

... THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE A new study of Napoleon's first wife; from Mormonism to apartheid; and this week's tally of fiction More books, it seems, have been written about Napoleon than about any other human figure in history. Quite a few, by the same token ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1091 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

PICTORIAL REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS: The Mormon Leader--London Pleasure Haunts--A Life of Mussolini--And Other ..

... of the Prophet Joseph Smith, who founded the Mormon sedL But he has done much more he has written i history of the Mormon people. Fortunately far the Mormons, Joseph Smith did not live loo& else Mormonism would have disappeared owing to the prepostcrousncss ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1164 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Miss Wardle's New Novel

... vicious orgies, to which she subjects the Mormons who move in the back ground of her story, Ezra the Mormon (Everett 6(.) The story itself tells, chiefly, of the infatuation of an English girl, Thora Sutton, for a Mormon Elder, Ezra Dyer. So thoroughly does ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1907
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 893 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

OLYMPIC THEATRE

... rescue Hester from Mormon clutches. In addition to the number of melodramatic tableaux thus provided, the piece has one or two amusing scenes illustra tive of more or less practical phases of Mormonism. Thus, a oertaiu recalcitrant Mormon, Abraham Clewson ...

Up Home

... people are humbler, more eccentric, and warmly individual, and have the added interest (which they do not need) of being Mormons at the turn of the century, when poly gamy had been forbidden but existing plural marriages continued. Mr. O'Hara could have ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... stirring account of the Mormon people, their early persecutions, and their long trek across a continent to find a place where they can worship as they please and live unmolested. The story begins in Illinois, where the Mormons, under the leadership of ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1131 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

The Girl from Utah at the Adelphi, and People Like Ourselves at the Globe: AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE; THE GIRL ..

... that Mr. P ayne should decide to seize the Mormon's topper, and that is where the trouble begins. For a good deal of the rest of the play Mr. Payne is called upon to protest that he is really not a Mormon, although circumstances are ingeniously accu ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1460 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

TOLD BY AN IDIOT

... Catholic, Baptist, Ethical Churchman, Theosophist, Spiritualist, Higher Thinker in fact, almost everything in religions except a Mormon and a Mohammedan. He had a family whose chequered careers form a series of sub plots, although of main plot there is little ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review 

THE TRIBULATIONS OF A POLYGAMIST: An American Historical Novel With its Setting in Salt Lake City at the Close ..

... THERE has been no more dramatic story in the his tory of the United States than that of the Westward trek of the Mormon people under Brigham Young, and their founding of the great settlement of Salt Lake City. Needless to say, it has pro vided the theme ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1439 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC IN THE THEATRE

... their weepers and a bevy of beauty, and it ends by Pete marrying one, the girl of his heart (Miss Marie Blanche) who is not a Mormon, and his two partners, Jack Grayson (Mr. J. Morrison) and Biff Hale (Mr. Eric Blore) marrying two of the Salt Lake beauties ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1919
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 239 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

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 

LITERATURE: SOME NOTES ON NEW BOOKS: A Literary Letter will be found on p. 240 of this Issue; The Poems of ..

... Smith, the founder of the Mormons, learnt from an angel the hidden hiding place of some golden plates on which a new gospel was written, the Mormons have been a source of trouble to the United States Government. The Mormons grew rapidly, suffering co ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1913
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2878 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review