Word: evensong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason, the Old World has so far been kinder than the New to the cultists of the Oxford Group. On the heels of the Ollerup meeting, a European author with a respectable following will publish next week the Group's first big literary apologia. Having tried smart fiction (Evensong), pacifism (Cry Havoc!) and horticulture (Down The Garden Path), elegant British Author Beverley Nichols has turned to the Oxford Group. "All I want," says he in his forthcoming The Fool Hath Said,* "is to get as many people as possible to share with me the excitement of living Christianity...
...Cabinet took to the radio. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin took to the radio. Mrs. Roosevelt took to pencil and paper. The President said he was "too busy" for any observance, except to attend evensong at Washington Cathedral. Thus last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt completed his second year as President...
...Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...
Directed by Victor Saville in the lethargic British manner, Evensong is chiefly notable for the fact that slim, blonde, pretty Evelyn Laye manages to look bitterly old, awkwardly massive in its final sequences. Good shot: the café scene from La Bohême, in which Spanish Soprano Supervia ably sings Musetta's Waltz...
...City, State and world church councils which did not exist 25 years ago. Commissions for international, inter-racial and inter-church good will. Radiobroadcasts of interdenominational Sunday services, morning devotions, evensong and religious news...