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...Forget." At that point, Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, strode into the room. He was (in the words of Historian Francis Hackett) "lean, ascetic, ominous, with black fires in his hollow eyes, reminding one of certain Spanish landscapes that look like the suburbs of hell." Holding out a crucifix, Torquemada said: "Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver: Your Highness is about to sell Him for 30,000 ducats. Here He is; take Him and sell Him." He left the crucifix on a table and withdrew; shaken, the King declared that the edict would stand...
From there until the weekend, Inquisitor Ferguson struggled with his bullheaded, shrewd, obstreperous witness. On his part, Planemaker Hughes put on a fancy performance in self-advancement, the sum of which was that, in effect, he had thought up many of the good planes the U.S. used in World War II-and the Japs had copied one for their Zero. Everybody welcomed the arrival of Saturday night. Some other Republican Congressmen still in Washington were beginning to get restive over the rowdy proceedings. Michigan's Senior Senator Arthur Vandenberg dropped in among the spectators on Saturday...
...clerical roles in particular were performed with something more than even extraordinary skill. Charles Sedgwick as the Archbishop of Reins and Thayer David as the Inquisitor went beyond the realms of skill in the two roles which more than any other express the religious-philosophical outlook of Shaw in the play. Mendy Weisgal was perfect as the pathetic Dauphin, from his neglected yellow robes to the fifteenth century hair style he had summoned for the occasion. H. M. Temple set the pace for the rest of the cast with a superbly stylish performance as de Baudricourt in the opening scene...
Members of the "Saint Joan" cast are: Donna Holabird as Joan, Mendy Weisgal '45 1G as the Dauphin, Thayer David as the Inquisitor, Charles Sedgwick 1G as the Archbishop, Jerome T. Kilty '50 as Cauchon, Joseph D. Everingham '49 as Dunois, William A. West '49 as Warwick, H. M. Temple 3rd '47 as Robert de Beaudricourt and as the English soldier...
What Msgr. Sheen is describing is not the dawn of the religious phase of human history, but a retrogression to the era of the persecuting bigot and the inquisitor...