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Finishing the evening in their native element, the Theatre Ballet put on Pineapple Poll--another premiere--adapted from Gilbert's Bab Ballad. True to the Gilbert and Sullivan formula, tragedy and comedy have play, in this case on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Elaine Fifield shows great talent for the comically forlorn gesture in her futile attempt to attract the Captain (David Blair), who keeps a crew of ladies in disguise...
Promptly the Rev. James W. Fifield of Los Angeles' 4,200-member First Congregational Church (largest Congregational church in the U.S.) organized a fight against the council's ruling. As a test, the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. filed suit, and for 23 court days and 3,000 pages of testimony Justice Stein brink listened to the subdued wrangling of ministerial witnesses...
...conference in Cleveland generated some heat. The 1,500 delegates and spectators jammed the Public Auditorium's ballroom so tightly that suits wilted and hairdos straggled. It was made hotter still by the vociferous opposition to the merger, led by big (6 ft. 4 in.) Dr. James Fifield Jr., 49, pastor of the denomination's largest and most prosperous flock-Los Angeles' 4,526-member First Congregational Church...
Cried Preacher Fifield: "We think Congregationalism has a unique genius to contribute to the cause of freedom in the U.S. The merger will destroy that-the autonomous, free, local church in contrast to the capital-C church on the national level...
Spectacle of Schism? Just before the vote was taken, Dr. Fifield proclaimed dramatically: "If the merger is pushed through, the world will see the spectacle of a schism . . . You can break our hearts and send us home." But when the ballots were counted, it was 757 for to 172 against. Dr. Fifield summoned his followers to a protest meeting at the Hotel Statler. His dire prediction: 500 to 1,000 churches will withdraw to form a separate group, and litigation will begin over use of the Congregational name...