Word: choirboy
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...visited by a Canadian high churchman, Bishop Rocksborough R. Smith of Algoma, Ont., who wore red slippers and episcopal gloves, presided at long and ceremonious services worked up from Fortescue.* A story became current in the Episcopal Church: that New York's Cardinal Hayes, upon learning that a choirboy had fainted during a Mass, had said, "We'd better be careful; the first thing you know they'll be copying that at St. Mary the Virgin." Latest innovation at St. Mary's: the use of a vimpa, a scarf of thin white silk worn around...
...Jesus, I Have Promised; Onward, Christian Soldiers; Softly Now the Light of Day. Last week Rt. Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, chub-cheeked Episcopal Bishop of Oregon, suggested that these old soldiers be given a rest. Said the Bishop, who has sung them since he was a chub-cheeked choirboy: "They are fine hymns and should be used from time to time, but I get tired of singing them about a hundred times a year...
...year-old Bobby Breen swap his mammy-singing mannerisms for the more suitable antics of a lifelike small boy. Its story outfits him with rags & tatters, a shoeshine box and a stowaway's berth to Honolulu. But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio...
Forever Yours (Grand National). When Beniamino Gigli (pronounced zhee-lyee) was a choirboy in Recanati, Italy 40 years ago, he was called "Il Passero Solitario" (the solitary sparrow). When Enrico Caruso died in 1921 and Gigli inherited his roles at the Metropolitan Opera, he was called "the world's greatest tenor." Eleven years later when Gigli refused to take a 10% salary cut to help the staggering Metropolitan keep going, he was called names far less flattering, which so ''diminished" his "dignity as a man and as an artist'' that he went back to Europe...
...yacht. Covered by the machine gun fire of Senora O'Halloran, he took one companion, an oldtime Venezuelan adventurer, and ran firing toward Batista's men. The two fell battered with bullets almost at once. As he died, Tony's face stiffened into a strange choirboy grimace of joy. The soldiers arrested Senora O'Halloran and ten other friends of Tony...