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Designed by Ralph Adams Cram, the Chapel architecture is a combination of late Romanesque and Norman features. Inside, the grey walls are high and long, giving the Italian marble choir and altar a sense of depth. Stained-glass windows deck the clerestory, portraying the Virgin Mary (west window) and leaders in monastic history. Before construction of the Chapel commenced, 84 concrete pillars some 20 feet long were driven into the ground to insure a sturdy foundation...
Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic busybodies, vow that the youngsters shall meet anyhow, and thereby thinly hangs the opera...
Last Sunday's meeting was typical of those Father Feeney has been conducting on the Common. It was a fine, summery day, and over 200 people were gathered around the altar that Father Feeney and his friends had set up. The altar consisted of a platform large enough for one man to stand on, with a vividly-colored picture of the Virgin Mary set on top of it. A small green statue of the infant Jesus rested on a shelf beside the speaker...
...priest got off the mainline of his attack on orthodox Catholic theology and concentrated all his vocal power on the Jews. He called them shady businessmen, hypocrites, and insidious destroyers of the Catholic faith. The people near the altar nodded with agreement at these sentiments, but the shouting grew agreement from the fringes of the crowd...
Dress Rehearsal. In St. Petersburg, Fla., Patricia Harris and Don Collins showed up on time for their wedding, were kept waiting 45 minutes at the altar by the Rev. J. W. Pearson, who was out seeing the movie, Here Comes the Groom...