Word: evensong
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...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...
Form of Worship. "This must be so directed and conducted that its relevance to life and to men's actual needs is evident. . . . Our traditional forms of matins and evensong, presupposing as they do acceptance of the tradition of the Church and unfailing regularity of use, are largely unsuitable. They must in most places be supplemented by services of another type, whether liturgical or not, designed to bring before uninstructed people the truth concerning...
...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...
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...