Word: clergyman
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Actor Otis Skinnert mild-mannered son of a clergyman, talked with a reporter about the "joyous murderer Hajj" and other badmen he has portrayed on the stage. He sighed. "The only part that I have not played and wanted to play is lago in Othello. There is a delightfully villainous person." Then he said: "I might like to play Al Capone...
...manner that seems oldfashioned, courtly, Victorian when compared with contemporary styles. At times reminiscent of her friend, David Garnett, she has none of Garnett's slyness; her implications are altogether moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner...
...wonder if all our English visitors must recite that carry on tale about the frogs in the cream vat and the pat of butter. Here Cosmo Hamilton repeats it (TIME, May 4). I heard that English-Aesop fable delivered during the War by an English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...
...lifts the only ground for divorce the Episcopal Church recognizes-adultery; it permits, by inference, divorced persons to partake of all the church rites and sacraments-Holy Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion-and permits them to be married a second time by an Episcopal clergyman, though not in the Church nor with the prayer-book service. Second marriage, at present sanctioned only for the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, would be in the discretion of a Bishop or an ecclesiastical court which the new Canon proposes to establish. Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only...
...Government declared war last week, Rev. Peter Pastor, average U. S. Protestant clergyman, would pretty well have denounced it and refused to participate. He might, however, have become entangled in it if it were a defensive war; he might have served as an Army chaplain...