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Archbishop John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles warned Roman Catholics that they may not "with a free conscience" see Duel, It was "morally offensive and spiritually depressing." Another churchman deplored the "shouting piety" of Walter Huston playing the "Sin Killer." The city's Federation of Protestant Churches charged that "wrongdoing was shown to win every conflict with the right." The Catholic Tidings, describing Duel's heroine, Jennifer Jones, as "unduly if not indecently exposed," called the film "far worse, in a moral sense" than Howard Hughes's outlawed The Outlaw...
...Norman Burdett Nash, rector of 91-year-old St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.), looked his part. His close-cropped mustache, his energetic briskness, his ready laugh, seemed to fit the schoolmaster more than the top-rank churchman. Yet among graduates of haughty, hockey-playing St. Paul's it has been no secret that the school and Headmaster Nash have not been an ideal couple...
...broad churchman like Bishop Sherrill, 58-year-old Norman Nash, son of an Episcopal clergyman, was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge (Mass.). He studied at Cambridge (England), and was ordained in time to serve as a chaplain in World War I. After the war he returned to Episcopal Theological School, where for 19 years he taught New Testament and Christian social ethics, built a reputation for encyclopedic knowledge and crisp, closely reasoned lectures...
...Rome spinsterish Kingsley Martin, Unitarian minister and editor of Britain's leftish New Statesman and Nation, talked about world Communism with a Catholic dignitary who saw a silver lining. Martin quoted the churchman: "If the leaders of Soviet Russia had been clever enough to respect individual rights and religious liberty in the countries they had occupied, Russia would today be by much the greatest power in the world. Perhaps we must thank le ban Dieu"-and he made a prayerful sign-"that He has not made them so intelligent...
Despite these flaws, the value of the play itself shines through, chiefly by virtue of outstanding performances by Eva LeGalliene and Walter Hampden as Queen Katherine and Cardinal Wolsey. It is in the changing views of Wolsey--first the tyrannical, scheming lord of all England, then the pathetic churchman, fallen but still happy in religion--that the play has most of its strength; and Hampden got those concepts across to the audience with rare skill...