Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Mary Sunshine. A hit musical that parodies the sugary operettas of Friml and Kern...
...large a following that it has already staged second repeat performances of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. An idea of rare originality is realized in The Fantasticks, a musical in masque form based on Rostand's Les Romanesques. Since last spring, Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane (1917) has been exploiting a rich vein of nostalgia: snowy-browed patrons go back and back again, are beginning to do the same at a new production of George Gershwin...
...operates at a loss of about $300 a week, but much of this deficit is covered by the "Ecclesiastical Shakedown Society," a group founded in 1957 by Earl ("Hank") Shurmur, a Detroit TV cameraman. Hard drinking occasionally led Hank Shurmur to bed down at Holy Trinity, and after Father Kern "straightened him out," Shurmur began putting the bite on high-salaried executives all over the city for contributions. The society shook down $4,200 the first year, has already topped $3,000 so far in 1960. Members send materials and food, as well as money. One member contributed 900 cases...
Sins of Weakness. Pastor Kern, 52, is the son of a Pontiac assembly-line worker, a graduate of Sacred Heart Seminary, and a former chaplain in the Catholic Worker movement. He came to Holy Trinity in 1943, was made pastor in 1949. Since he took over, reports Juvenile Court Judge Nathan Kaufman, the area around Holy Trinity Church has had the lowest juvenile delinquency rate of any comparable slum area...
...have many sins of weakness here," says Father Kern. "But I'll bet the Lord will be easier on these people than on folks who say, 'Send them back where they came from.' My biggest problem is to get people to help and love each other. That's what the mystical body of Christ is all about...