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Married. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 64, Canterbury Cathedral's "Red Dean" ("There is more Christianity in Soviet Russia and Red Spain than there is in England"); and 31-year-old Nowell Mary Edwards, his second cousin; at Craven Arms, Shropshire...
...into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus...
When Actor Frank Craven took a holiday from his leading role of commentator in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Thornton Wilder stepped into the part. Said Author-Actor Wilder of his Broadway debut: "I stuttered a little over my lines, clipped some of the words, tripped now & then." Said the critics: "He read his lines extremely well...
...cloistered at novel-writing. Concerned with life in a small New Hampshire community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic cop, living newspaper and cracker-barrel philosopher. The whole effect gives ten times as much "theatre" as conventional scenery could give...
...Craven, as the minister who marries the boy and girl lovers, doesn't know whether he approves of marriage or not, but in the last act the events and he become quite philosophical, and he comes forth with some decided views on death. He takes for granted a universal belief in the immortality of the soul, and then he explains that a dozen people, sitting very stiffly in chairs on the stage, are dead people in their graven, waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them...