Word: creighton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Wittington Creighton had grown so famed for his personality and his clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with...
Time, the Comedian. Frederick and Fanny Hatton wrote a novel in which Lew Cody, Mae Busch and Creighton Hale have been blended with thoughtful, valuable effect. It is about a wife who deserts a husband, is in turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady...
Centers--W. J. Anderson, C. E. Brown, Creighton Churchill, D. B. Dorman, R. S. Holden, Henry Howard, C. P. Jackson, T. S. Kernan, F. N. Rich. L. M. Shapiro...
...into consideration the infinite capacity of playwrights to borrow Unconsciously or otherwise almost all of the situations have been used over and over again in subsequent entertainments. The film seems to lack novelty. It is the story of a young man who acquired a wife to please his aunt. Creighton Hale is entertaining...
...three most considerable articles, "Tame Asses", "Learning", and "Too Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden...