Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helen Hayes's brilliant performance fits into this spirit nearly perfectly, which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...
...director, Albert Marre, deserves much credit for his gay coordination of the many buoyant actors and actions, as does Oliver Smith, the designer, for his airy, mobile, imaginatively congruous sets...
...Minneapolis had played programs that ranged from Mozart through Bartok to U.S. Composer Henry Cowell's gay, melodic Music for Orchestra 1957, specially composed for the tour. The traveling orchestra had its casualties, but only one musician missed a plane, and he was delivered (to Athens) on a cargo plane in time to make the concert. Spare reeds and strings were plentiful; even the tympani player got around his problem of extremes of humidity by putting the drumheads under a hair drier when they loosened in damp climates and covering them with wet diapers when they got too tight...
Purely Christian. Founder of this remarkable church was a Congregational pastor from Boston, the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, whose love of "gay, wicked, learned, royal Paris" was mixed with grim Yankee misgivings: "One may live in Paris and feel that he is in a world without souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees...
Today Paris is still gay, wicked and learned, and the spirit in which the American Church ministers to its wandering U.S. souls remains the same as it was in 1857. There is little likelihood that either will change. As Pastor Emeritus Cochran told parishioners last week: "With rejoicing and thanksgiving we celebrate this church's 100 birthday. It is a time for rededication to the holy cause for which it was established...