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Usually the witchmaster who presides over the ceremony is a woman and the altar boys are homosexuals but these details would not have been included, the spokesman assured...
...also denied that the students were planning to hold the Mass at midnight in the University chapel, "with someone rising from a coffin in the transept and deflorating a virgin on the altar as the conclusion of the Mass. There is no authority for this in any of the literature on the Mass, and it seems impractible. On the contrary, our ceremony would have been quite conservative and restrained...
...loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls, and shows them left in the lurch rather than led to the altar. (Equally raffish on the surface, Guys and Dolls is far more romantic underneath...
...always wanted to follow in his father's steps. "I've never wanted to be anything but a priest," he says. "I've known that ever since I've known anything. At seven I began as an acolyte, a server at the altar, and I've been there ever since." After Columbia College and General Theological Seminary, he served churches in Chicago and Pittsburgh, then went back to St. Philip's as his father's curate in 1923. He became rector when his father retired 18 years...
...pursued by two sets of indignant parents determined to stop them. Once thrown together, the girl's uppity parents and the boy's homespun folks take to each other so enthusiastically that they turn to playing Cupid when the youngsters bicker and part short of the altar...