Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graceful athletes; its subjects usually fairy tales, quaint boy-&-girl situations, gentle vaudevillian satires. Some rebellious dancers, pining for more significant footwork, have balked at ballet's limitations. First of the rebels was the late great U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, who took to stage dancing like a Baptist to water, discarded ballet's fouettes and entrechats for natural movements, its powder-puff skirts for Greek robes...
Druid Hills Baptist Church...
...Sunland, Calif., Church Member William Doak advertised a revival at Evangelist Harry O. Anderson's Baptist Church by dressing up like the devil, picketing the church. He paraded with a sign: "Anderson's program unfair to me and my friends. This institution entices my servants away. Local No. 666, Union of Amalgamated Beelzebubs...
Married. Virginia Cocalis, 24, and George McMillan, 25; in St. Nicholas' Church, Newark, N. J. Under the terms of Theatre Owner Soteros D. Cocalis' will, Daughter Virginia forfeited a $25,000 bequest by wedding a man not "born into the Greek Orthodox faith." Born a Baptist, McMillan joined the Greek church, but it was too late...
Nearly three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before...