Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edith Hunter, in "The Questioning Child and Religion" [Oct. 8], speaks of the child who wants to go to the movies on Sundays so that Jesus won't come again and snatch her away. Wouldn't the child be safer in Miss Hunter's Unitarian Sunday school, for Jesus would never think of looking there! (THE REV.) GEORGE E. CONDIT...
This small fugitive is one of a multitude of moppets whose searching, touching, and often embarrassing queries fill the pages of The Questioning Child and Religion (Beacon Press; $3), by Edith F. Hunter. Author Hunter, who has three questioning children of her own, is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary. Currently, she is a curriculum editor for the educational division of the Council of Liberal Churches-the council that governs the two-year-old federation of the Unitarians and Universalists. Author Hunter thus speaks especially to religious "liberals" who are inclined to regard Jesus as great rather...
...Sister Lied." For many a modern mother the Bible is an alarming compendium of nightmare fodder. Jehovah's slaughter of Egypt's first-born and his drowning of everybody but the Noahs, says Edith Hunter, have struck terror to many a young heart. Children brought up on The Little Golden Books should be ex posed to Scripture with extreme caution...
None of the singing voices is particularly good, but none is bad. Most of the acting is quite adequate. Edith Adams and Peter Palmer fill the leads pleasantly, while Howard St. John's Bullmoose and Stubby Kaye's Marryin' Sam are amusing and refreshing. Although she shows traces of Ethel Merman and a witch from Macbeth, Charlotte Ray proves a good choice for Mammy Yokum. Pappy's role is properly squeaked by J. E. Marks...
Others chosen for major parts were Lisa Rosenfarb '57 as Gertrude, John Fenn '57 as Horatio, Robert Jordan '59 as Laertes, Richard Smities '57 as Polonius, and Edith Iselin '59 as Ophelia. Stephen Aaron '57 will direct the entire production...