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NATIONAL LEGION OF DECENCY
453 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 22, N. Y.
APRIL 12, 1962
Vol. XXVII No. 14
PLaza 9-1400
RIGHT REV. MSGR. THOMAS F. LITTLE, S.T.L.
Executive Secretary
REV. PATRICK J. SULLIVAN, S.J., S.T.D.
Assistant Executive Secretary
MRS. JAMES F. LOORAM, L.H.D.
Chairman, Motion Picture Department, I. F. C. A.
A moral estimate of current entertainment feature
motion pictures prepared under the direction of
the New York Office of the National Legion of
Decency with the co-operation of the Motion
Picture Department of the International Federa
tion of Catholic Alumnae.
CLASS A — Section I
Alakazam, The Great—Am. Inti.
Babes in Toy land—Buena Vista
Bashful Elephant—AA
Beauty and the Beast—UA
Boy Who Caught a Crook (Was: Boy Who
Found $100,000)—UA
Capture That Capsule—UA
Cash On Demand—Col.
Cinderella (Russ.)—Janus
Clown and the Kid—UA
Comancheros—Fox
Dalton Who Got Away—Dalton
David and Goliath—AA
Dentist In the Chair, A (Br.)—Ajay Film Co.
Desert Patrol—U-I
El Cid—AA
Errand Boy—Para.
Flight That Disappeared—UA
Follow' That Dream—UA
Forever My Love—Para.
Francis of Assisi—Fox
Gambler Wore a Gun—UA
Greyfriar’s Bobby—Buena Vista
Gun Fight—UA
Guns of Navarone—Col.
CLASS A — Section II —
Beyond All Limits—Pathe-Am.
Big Money—UA
Atlantis, the Lost Continent—MGM
Battle At Bloody Beach—Fox
Belle Sommers—Col.
FSeware of Children—Am. Inti
Black Tights—Magna Films
Blue Hawaii—Para.
Brainwashed—A A
Bridge, The—AA
Bridge To the Sun—MGM
Broken Land—Fox
Brushfire—Para.
Cat Burglar—UA
Colossus of Rhodes—MGM
Cow and I, The (Fr.)—Zenith Inti.
Dead to the World—UA
Deadly Companions—Pathe
Deadly Duo—UA
Devil At 4 O’Clock—-Col.
Dr. Blood’s Coffin—UA
Eleventh Commandment—Prairie
Escape From Zahrain—Para.
Experiment In Terror—Col.
Fanny—War.
Fear No More—Pathe-America
Five Finger Exercise—Col.
Flight of the Lost Balloon—Realart
Flower Drum Song—U-I
Morally Unobjectionable for General Patronage
REVIEWED THIS ISSUE
Mothra—Col.
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Hatari—Para.
Heroes Island—UA
Hey, Let’s Twist—Para-
Honeymoon Machine—MGM
Invasion Quartet—MGM
Jack the Giant Killer—UA
La Belle Americaine (Fr.)—Continental
Lad, A Dog—War.
Ladies Man—Para.
Land We Love—UA
Life of Maria Goretti (Ital.)—Catholic Film
Prods.
Majority of One—War.
Man Who Wagged His Tail (Sp.-Ital.)—
Continental
Merrill’s Marauders—War.
Midsummer Nights Dream—Show Corp.
Modem Times—United Artists
Moon Pilot—Buena Vista
Murder She Said—MGM
Mysterious Island—Col.
Nearly a Nasty Accident—U-I
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North—Buena Vista
Parent Trap, The—Buena Vista
Pied Piper of Hamelin—Prod. Unlimited
Pirates of Tortuga—Fox
Prisoner of the Iron Mask—Am. Inti.
Purple Hills—Fox
Queen of the Pirates—CoL
Saintly Sinners—UA
Search for Paradise—Stanley Warner
Second Time Around—Fox
Sergeant Was a Lady—U-I
Sergeants 3—UA
Snake Woman—UA
Snow White and the Three Stooges—Fox
Summer To Remember, A (Russ.)—Kingsle?
Swinging Along—Fox %
Teenage Millionaire—UA
Thief of Baghdad—MGM
Three Stooges Meet Hercules—Col.
Town Like Alice, A (Br.)—Rank
Two Little Bears—Fox
Underwater City—Col.
Valley of the Dragons—Col.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea —Fox
When the Clock Strikes—UA
Whistle Down the Wind (Br.)—Pathe-Am.
X-1S—UA
You Have to Run Fast—UA
Morally Unobjectionable for Adults and Adolescents
REVIEWED THIS ISSUE
Don’t Knock the Twist—Col.
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Follow That Man—UA
Frantic (Fr.)—Times Film Corp.
Geronimo—UA
Gidget Goes Hawaiian—Col.
Gun Street—UA
Hand of Death—Fox
Hell Is For Heroes—Para.
Hellions, The—Col.
Horizontal Lieutenant—MGM
Incident in an Alley—UA
Judgment At Nuremberg—UA
Last Time I Saw Archie—UA
Lonely Are the Brave—U-I
Lost Battalion—Am. Inti.
Madison Avenue—Fox
Magic Sword—UA
Man In the Moon—Trans-Lux
Man Who Died Twice—Rep.
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance—Para.
Mask, The—War.
Mein Kampf—Col.
Mighty Ursus—UA
Most Wanted Man—Astor
My Geisha—Para.
Naked Edge—UA
Neapolitan Carousel (Ital.)—Lux
Hands of a Stranger—AA
Twist All Night—Am. Inti.
Outsider—U-I
Pit and the Pendulum—Am. Inti.
Pleasure of His Company—Para,
Premature Burial—Am. Inti.
Pocketful of Miracles—UA
Risk, The—Kingsley-Intl.
Rommel’s Treasure—Medallion
Samar—War.
Sardonicus—Col.
Scream of Fear—Col.
Secret of Deep Harbor—UA
Shadow of the Cat—U-I
Six Black Horses—U-I
State Fair—Fox
13 West Street—Col.
Throne of Blood (Jap.)—Brandon
Time Bomb—AA
Trunk, The—Col.
Twenty Plus Two—AA
Twist Around the Clock—Col.
Two Rode Together—Col.
War Hunt—UA
Weekend With Lulu—Col.
Woman Hunt—Fox
World In My Pocket—MGM
Young Doctors—UA
Young Savages—UA
CLASS A —Section III — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults
Cape Fear—U-I
Ada—MGM
All Fall Down—MGM
Anatomy of a Syndicate (Was: Big Operator)
—Cinema Assoc.
Armored Command—AA
Bachelor In Paradise—MGM
Blast of Silence—U-I
Boys Night Out—MGM
Breakfast At Tiffany’s—Para.
By Love Possessed—UA
Claudelle Inglish—War.
Children’s Hour—UA
Come September—U-I
Couch, The—War.
Double Bunk (Br.)—Show Corp.
Fever in the Blood, A—War.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—MGM
George Raft Story—AA
Girl With a Suitcase (Ital.)—Ellis
Great War, The—Lopert
REVIEWED THIS ISSUE
Counterfeit Traitor—Para.
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Happy Thieves—UA
Hitler—AA
Hustler, The—Fox
Information Received (Br.)—U-I
Innocents, The—Fox
La Notte Brava (Ital.)—Miller
Last Year At Marienbad (Fr.)—Astor
Light in the Piazza—MGM
Loss of Innocence (Was: Greengage Summer)
—Col.
Murder. Inc.—Fox
Ninth Circle (Yug.)—Jadran Films
Nun and the Sergeant—UA
One Plus One—Selected Pics.
One, Two, Three—UA
Return to Peyton Place—Fox
Ride the High Country—MGM
Rocco and His Brothers (Ital.)—Astor
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone—War.
Rome Adventure—War.
Only Two Can Play (Br.)—Col.
Sail a Crooked Ship—Col.
Satan Never Sleeps—Fox
Season of Passion—UA
Seven Women From Hell—Fox
Singer Not the Song—War.
Something Wild—UA
Stop Me Before I Kill—Col.
Summer and Smoke—Para.
Susan Slade—War.
Sweet Bird of Youth—MGM
Tender Is the Night—Fox
Three On a Spree—UA
Through a Glass Darkly (Swed.)—Janus
Thunder of Drums—MGM
Town Without Pity—UA
Two Women (Ital.)—Embassy
Unfaithfuls, The—UA
View From the Bridge—Continental
West Side Story—UA
Wolf Larsen—AA
CLASS B — Morally Objectionable in Part for All
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Angel Baby—AA
Bachelor Flat—Fox
Back Street—U-I
Big Show, The—Fox
Bimbo the Great—War.
Blood and Roses—Para.
Breath of Scandal—Para.
Carthage In Flames—Col.
Day the Earth Caught Fire—U-I
Desire in the Dust—Fox
Devil’s Eye, The (Swed.)—Janus
Entertainer. The (Br.)—Continental
Esther and the King—Fox
Explosive Generation—UA
Five Minutes To Live—Pathe-Am.
Force of Impulse—Pathe-America
Foxhole In Cairo—Para.
G.I. Blues—Para.
Girl In Room 13—Astor
Go Naked In the World—MGM
Goodbye Again—UA
Guns of the Black Witch—Am. Inti.
Head, The—Trans-Lux
Herod, the Great—AA
House of Fright (was: Two Faces
Jekyll)—Amer. Int
House of Women—War.
Jazz Boat—Col.
Jessica—UA
Joker, The (Fr.)—Lopert
Journey To the Seventh Planet—Am. Inti.
Last Sunset—U-I
Leda (Fr.)—Times
Look In Any Window—AA
Love and the Frenchwoman (Fr.)—Kingsley-
Intl.
Lover, Come Back—U-I
Lovers On a Tightrope (Fr.)—Interworld
Mad Deg Coll—Col.
Man Trap—Para.
Marines Let’s Go—Fox
Mark, The (Irish)—Continental
Mary Had a Little (Br.)—Lopert
Matter of Morals, A—UA
Maxime (Fr.)—Interworld
Millionairess—Fox
Most Dangerous Man Alive—Col.
Night of Evil—Pathe-Am.
Nights of Rasputin (Ital.)—Premiere
No Love for Johnny (Br.)—Embassy
Paris Blues—UA
of Dr. Parrish—War.
Peeping Tom—Astor *
Pharaoh’s Woman—U-I
CLASS C — Condemned
PREVIOUSLY REVIEWED
Liane, Jungle Goddess—DCA
Love Game (Fr.)—Films Around World
Love Is My Profession (Fr.)—Kingsley-Intl.
Lover’s Return (French)—Lopert
Lovers, The (Fr.)—Zenith
Mademoiselle Gobette (French)—IFE
Mademoiselle Striptease (Fr.)—DCA
Magdalena (Ger.)—Buhawk
Maid in Paris (Fr.)—Continental
Marie du Port (French)—Bellon-Foulke
Mating Urge—Citation
Miller’s Beautiful Wife (Ital.)—DCA
Miss Julia (Swedish)—Trans-Globa! Pictures
Mitsou (Fr.)—Zenith Inti.
Mom and Dad (Sideroad)—Hallmark Prod.
Moon Is Blue, The—UA
Naked Night. The (Swedish)—Times Film
Nana (Fr.)—Times
Never On Sunday (Greek)—Lopert
Night Heaven Fell (Fr.f—Kingsley
Night, The (La Notte) (Ital.)—Lopert
Odd Obsession (Jap.)—Harrison
Oscar Wilde (Br.)—Four City Enterprises
Passionate Summer (Fr.-Ital.)—Kingsley
Portrait of a Mobster—War.
Portrait of a Sinner—Am. Inti.
Private Lives of Adam and Eve—U-I
Proper Time—Lopert
Purple Noon (Fr.)—Times
Right Approach, The—Fox
Sanctuary—Fox
Shakedown—U-I
Siege of Syracuse—Para.
Splendor In the Grass—War.
Squad Car—Fox
Telltale Heart—Brigadier
Terror of the Tongs—Col.
That Touch of Mink—U-I
Thunder in Carolina—Howco |ntl.
Tomorrow Is My Turn (Fr.)—Showcorp.
Too Late Blues—Para.
Two Loves—MGM
Underworld U. S. A.—Col.
Vice Raid—UA
Warrior Empress—Col.
Wild In the Country—Fox
Wonders of Aladdin—MGM
World by Night—War.
World of Suzy Wong—Para.
Young Helions (Was: High School Confide**
tial)—Cinema Assoc.
Adorable Creatures (French)—Continental
And God Created Woman (Fr.)—Kingsley
Baby Doll—War.
Bed of Grass (Greek)—Trans-Lux
Bed, The (French)—Kingsley International
Breathless (Fr.)—Films Around World
Cold Wind In August—Aidart
Come Dance With Me (Fr.)—Kingsley-IntL
Desperate Women, The—Majestic Films, Inc.
During One Night (Br.)—Astor
Espresso Bongo (Br.)—Continental
Five Day Lover (Fr.)—Kingsley-Intl.
Green Carnation (was: Trials of Oscar Wilde)
j (Br.)—Warwick Films
Green Mare (Fr.)—Zenith
Heroes and Sinners (Fr.)—Janus
Husband for Anna, A (Italian)—IFE
I Am a Camera—DCA
Illicit Interlude (Swedish)—Gaston Hakim
Karamoja—Hallmark Productions, Inc.
L’Awentura (Ital.)—Janus
La Notte (Night) (Ital.)—Lopert
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Fr.)—Kingsley
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Fr.)—Astor Pic-
ture5 ’ Inc SEPARATE CLASSIFICATION
,A Separate Classification U given to certain film, which, while not morally offensive in themselves, require caution and some analysis
as a protection to the uninformed against wrong interpretations and false conclusions.)
Adam and Eve (Mex.)—Wm. Home T „,
Anatomy of a Murder—Col. Dolce Vita Astor Pictures, Inc.
Case of Dr. Laurent (Fr.)—Trans-Lux Martin Luther—de Rochemont
Circle of Deception—Fox Never Take Candy From a Shranger-Omat
Crowning Experience—MRA Corp.
Girl of the Night—War. ———■
Please! Mr. Balzac (Fr.)—DCA
Port of Desire—Union
Pot Bouille (Lovers of Paris) (Fr.)—
Continental
Prime Time—Essanjay Films, Inc.
Private Property—Citation
Question of Adultery—NTA
Rosanna—Jacon Film
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (JBi\)—
. Continental
Savage Eye—Trans-Lux-Kingsley Tntl
Sins of the Borgias (French)—Aidart
Sins of Mona Kent—Astor
Smiles of a Summer Night (Swedish)—Rank
Snow Was Black (Fr.)—Continental
Stella (Greek)—Burstyn
Temptation (Fr.-Ital.)—Shelton
Third Sex (Ger.)—D. & F. Dist.
Trial; of Oscar Wilde (Br.)—Warwick Filtae
Truth, The (La Verity) (Fr.)—Kingsley Inti.
Wasted Lives and The Birth ef Twins—
K. Gordon Murray Production
Wild Harvest—Pathe-Am.
Woman of Rome (Ital.)—DCA
Storm Center—Col.
Suddenly, Last Summer—CoL
Victim (Br.)—Pathe-America
Walk On the Wild Side—Col.
A. M. D. G.
For the greater glory of
God and for the spiritual
benefit of authors, publishers,
reriewers and readers.
A CATHOLIC CASE AGAINST
SEGREGATION, Edited by Jo
seph E. O’Neil, S J., Mac
Millan, 1961, 155 pp., $3.95.
Reviewed by E. Matthews.
A Catholic Case Against Seg
regation should be required
reading for all Catholics — for
the segregationist that he may
be converted from his ways
and live a full Christian life;
for the integrationist that he
may gain a communicable know-
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THE KINDERBEAST PRIZE,
‘Stories and Sketches”, by Sis
ter Mary Catherine O’Connor
Sheed & Ward, 1962, 211 pp.,
$3.95.
Reviewed by Margaret T
Witalis.
The long, happy summer
evenings of childhood come
alive again within the wry and
gentle humor of Sister Mary
Catherine O’Connor. Her col
lected expose on the ‘‘young
life and hard times” of Dolores,
Lilly or Bets are a delicious
spring tonic. In The Kinder-
beast Prize, the title story of
the book, our heroine falls
prey to the siren sound of
easy money,” or watches, in
this case. All she has tc
do is to complete a collection
of cardboard animals. This is
fete far easier proposed than
disposed, and all that oatmeal
to be eaten! It is pleasant to
remember that the chase is of
ten sweeter than the victory.
Each story has its own
clever, New Yorker-ish plot
and ending and usually a ten
der, thought provoking moral
for good measure. This is the
type of book you can hardly
wait to loan to a dear friend.
And if you haven’t a friend, you
will find one easily in Sister
Mary Catherine.
LATEST
LEGION
LISTINGS
Movies classified since the
issuing of the Legion of De
cency list printed on this
page:
CLASS A
SECTION I
Best of Enemies
Music Man
Safe At Home
CLASS A
SECTION II
Birdman of Alcatraz
Burn, Witch, Burn
Night Creatures
Reprieve
Third of A Man
The Valiant
CLASS C
Bell Antonio
Viridiana
SEPARATE
CLASSIFICATION
Lolita
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Supplemental listing of re
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ledge of the situation; for the
indifferent that he may be in
spired to overthrow his luke
warmness.
From the Foreword given by
Richard Cardinal Cushing and
the Introduction of Joseph E
O’Neil, S J , the overall pic
ture of the crisis facing us
is one of militant hope. Con
tributors are authoritative in
their presentations which are
amply footnoted for more
thorough reference.
4 The Immorality of Segre
gation” is based in »the fact
that God has created man in
His image and as a member of
the Mystical Body of Christ.
Segregation violates both jus
tice and charity, and Robert W
Gleason, S J., makes clear
the theological teachings of the
Church as set forth in scripture
and papal encylicals.
Arthur A. North SJ , ‘‘The
Plessy Doctrine: Rise and
Demise,” writes a concise and
readable history of court inter
pretations of the "separate but
equal” rulings.
The great question now to be
solved is whether two dif
ferent races can live in peace
together ... In my reading
of history, I do not remember
any instance in which this has
ever been done. But God has
placed the work upon us and
with His blessing we must
try our best to accomplish
it.
So spoke Florida Governor
Walker in 1867, as quoted by
John W Donohue in “Biracial
Public School Education in the
South”. In this essay, Father
Donohue shatters the much
loved myth of separate but equal
schools and gives a factual ac
count of the slow and painful
beginnings of Negro schools in
the South, beginnings which per -
servered through the efforts of a
few dedicated Protestants such
as Anna T. Jeans, a Philadelphia
Quakeress.
Lest we believe all the diffi
culties are in the South, Robert
F. Drinan, S. J , considers in
* The Law and the Negro in the
North” racial discrimination in
housing, education, and employ
ment. He makes observations
on the extent to which the law
can change beliefs. “It is time
that the Catholics of America
fully comprehend the meaning of
the words of New Orleans Arch
bishop Joseph Francis Rummel:
Enforced racial discrimination
inflicts incalculable mental and
emotional cruelty and pain .
upon . . . millions of our fellow
citizens.”
Change is the social pattern
in our culture today, and Joseph
H Fichter, S J , in “Predictive
and Practical Generalizations
About Desegration ” illustrat
es how many of the predictions
on desegration made in recent
years have been realized when
based on this pattern and how
many dire prophesies have not
come to pass.
When forced, most people
admit the psychological harm
done to the Negro by segregation
and in “Psychological Research
and Educational Desegregation’
Dr. Anne Anantasi fully descri
bes the Negro’s feelings of in
feriority and frustration and his
overt expression of these feel
ings in apathy or aggression
The psychological harm done to
the white child is often over
looked. To allow the child mem
ber of the majority race to ab
sorb prejudices against theNe
gro and at the same time to teach
him the principles of democracy
and “fair play” is to foster in
him guilt feelings, cynicism
rejection of authority, or rigid
and unreasoning conformity.
John Lafarge, S J., writes
of ' ‘A Positive Approach to the
Social Problem” and seizes on
Many
First Communion
Gifts
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From INSIDE BROTHER JUNIPER, by Father.
Justin McCarthy, Hanover House, 1961, $1.00.
the note of hope expressed by
Charlayne Hunter, the coura
geous Atlanta Negro who enter
ed the University of Georgia in
1960 with Hamilton Holmes.
Father Lafarge would fix our
attention on what the Negro can
contribute to our American cul
ture when given the environment
in which to fulfill his abilities.
All these authors have clari
fied for us in 155 pages the fall
acies of “gradualism” and
“prudence” as covers-up for
inertia and as means to preser
ve the “satus quo” and of the
separate-but-equal policy to
further a social system opposed
to Christianity. Perhaps a little
of the same violence necessary
to carry away the Kingdom of
Heaven is needed to do violence
to the immoral mores, for sure
ly the “calm, consideration” so
may people prefer to give to the
problem often becomes just an
other wall to impede real pro
gress in charity.
MORGAN’S RAID, by Allan
Keller, Bobbs-Merrill, 1961,
272 pp., $5.00.
Reviewed by Theodora Koob.
Here is a rousing good story
that evidence would Indicate has
as much truth as careful re
search and meticulous study of
the thus accumulated minutiae
can give it. Surely, just about
every American has heard of
the hard-riding Beau Sabreur of
the Confederacy, John Morgan,
as he has heard of Francis
Marion, Sherman, Sheridan,
Jackson, and other spectacular
commanders; in fact, if we have
done nothing else in the last
twenty years, we have routed
out of obscurity a goodly num
ber of exciting tales from our
national history. This is cer
tainly one of them and mighty
well told.
Allan Keller, who has all the
earmarks of the fine journalist,
gives his subject the verve,
dash and vitality of a well-
characterized novel laid in a
truly exciting background; yet
this is no novel but a neatly
patterned accounting, again in
a style that has recently be
come popular, an hour-by
hour, day-by-day reporting of
General Morgan’s fantastic
twenty-five day raid across
Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
Sharp, clean writing with just,
an edge of slanting more toward
the subject’s point of view (and,
whatever his sympathies, a
writer would do ill to slant any
other way) makes the raid come
to life, particularly in terms of
the protagnoists. Diaries,
journals and newspapers were
among the author’s best
sources. Properly handled, ma
terial from such can give a nar
rative a very lively sense of re
ality and Mr. Keiler succeeds
in this. He succeeds remark
ably well, too, in making the
point of view of the raiders not
entirely glamouous and swash
buckling. Anecdote is heavily'
employed but never seems to
detract too much.
In view of the multiplicity of •
offerings about the War Between
the States during these anni--
versary years, it is refresh
ing to find a book that takes you
closer to the people participat
ing than to the place names and
results of campaigns. There is
some, but not too much’
name-calling and blame-spot
ting among leaders on both
sides but, generally, the Raicf
itself moves along as dashingly
and breathlessly as it undoubt
edly did in acutality. What in
terpretations are made seem r
justified, the mark of good writ
ing in itself; it is convincing and
entertaining. Lay readers, stu
dents of our history, and surely
all Southerners will enjoy this
book, and should.
JOSEPH. THE SILENT: charcoal sketch by Emily
Matthews; adapted from the drawing by Paul Grout.
JOSEPH THE SILENT, by
Michel Gasnier, O.P., Kennedy,
1962, 192 pp., $4.50.
Reviewed by E. Matthews.
Here is a picture of St. Jo
seph, a picture of the kind of
man who was the foster-father
of Jesus and the spouse of the
Mother of God, realistically
drawn from such good histories
of the times as Flavius
Josephus. Joseph The Silent is
an attempt to penetrate the si
lence of Joseph in the Gospels
and in tradition, the silence
which must have typified the
man who would stay selent so
the Son could be heard.
The Jewish custom of the
day was fpr a man to be about
18 years old at the time of his
marriage, and there is no rea
son to suppose St. Joseph was
any older. Also, it is reason
able to presume he had the
same education traditionally
given to the boys and that
he was a good carpenter able to
establish a home and support
his God-given family — in poor
circumstances perhaps by our
standards but surely in keeping
with the situation in Nazareth.
The Woman who could weave*
such a wondrous seamless
garment which would impress
the Roman soldiers would cer
tainly keep her husband as
well-dressed as his neighbors.
St. Jospeh was a good and
just man, sensitive to the
breath of the Holy Spirit, and
so attuned to the Will of God
that he could give instant and
lovingly thorough obedience to
God’s messages given in
dreams. This book about St.
Joseph will foster devotion tb
one who is most worthy of our
veneration, of a practical ven
eration leading to imitation,
and for this reason the book
Joseph The Silent will appeal
to many.