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...choice was excellent; and the production, in Sanders Theatre, was magnificent. Typical of Kilty's directive imagination was the decision to perform the coronation scene in the transept of Memorial Hall. The audience moved out of Sanders and became the congregation; the scene was played on a specially constructed altar at the north end, while fire-department searchlights outdoors focussed on the stained-glass windows over-head. The consensus was reflected in the comment of one critic, "From every conceivable standpoint Saint Joan is a high-water mark in Harvard dramatics...
...more than a modest hearse, a quick ceremony. Those who want to depart in style can, for a price (as high as $3,000), have black crape hung from the church's inner walls and black crape muffling the pews, black drapery with a white cross behind the altar, additional functionaries in cocked hats and a requiem Mass with 60 priests, acolytes and singers...
...which case "more priests or a bigger choir than usual" might be in order.) Specifications for the bishop's standard funeral will correspond to the undertakers' Class 4-two priests, one cantor, two choirboys, no deacon or archdeacon, no draperies or crape, six candles on the altar and eight at the catafalque. The church fee will be a flat $15; undertakers will have to make what profit they can on extras outside the church-ornate coffins, luxurious hearses, etc. The dead whose families cannot afford to pay even for the simplified funeral will be buried at the expense...
...months ago slim, brown-eyed Nadia, now 19, returned to Jordan where a good government job awaited her. Fiancé Stepho Stephan, 22, followed, and their pleased families announced a fall wedding. But last week the pampered pair stood not at an altar but at the bar of justice, on trial for their lives...
...because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from strength or weakness." As you can see, she does everything from weakness; and one wonders how she ever managed to get Gordon Smith to the altar and keep him from engaging a divorce lawyer...