Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Archbishop Coadjutor Georges Gauthier,* the corporation of the archdiocese, and St. Etienne parish, for $261,939.83 in notes of the parish, which the plaintiffs, and 75 other noteholders, claimed had been guaranteed by the first two defendants. According to canon law, however, an ecclesiastic or a religious corporation may not be sued without his or its permission. Although the plaintiffs said they asked for permission five times, they received no reply. They went ahead and sued anyway. Then the Consistorial Congregation announced that by their act they had incurred excommunication. Plaintiff Bordeleau, alarmed, ducked out of the suit last January...
William Roerick, in the part of Algernon Moncrieff, a sort of prototype of Bertie Wooster, is a little too much the romantic lover and not enough of the playboy. Ainsworth Arnold supplies a refreshing blast of unctuous lechery as the Rev. Canon Chasuble...
Carroll's centre of conflict is again religion, and the Church's relation to the people. The warmhearted, benignly sly old Canon of an Irish village has become paralyzed, and a younger man, Father Shaughnessy, comes to take over the Canon's duties. Glacial, snooping, bullying, Shaughnessy, like the Clown in Twelfth Night, thinks that because he is virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...
...knuckle under. Finally, he attempts to override the law. But he goes too far-the worm of a schoolmaster turns, the police inspector gives as good as he gets. the defiant girl stands her ground. Shaughnessy foments an uproar which it takes all the bluff diplomacy of the old Canon to quell...
...spirit of religion. His plays are allegorical in form and emotional in appeal. Their very simplicity is a stage asset, has the strength of black against white. Carroll is not yet really important, but he is Irish: he has rich-juiced dialogue, abundant humor, powerful characterizations. Mellow, charming Canon Lavelle and frigid, heartless Father Shaughnessy possibly provide too pat a contrast. But both are brilliant stage characters, inspire the belief that Carroll will some day achieve an even greater creation-mere human beings...